linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: cleanup kstrto*() usage

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:31:06 +0800
From:   kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        rafael@...nel.org
Cc:     kbuild-all@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: cleanup kstrto*() usage

Hi Alexey,

I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on driver-core/driver-core-testing]
[also build test WARNING on v5.10-rc4]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Alexey-Dobriyan/driver-core-cleanup-kstrto-usage/20201122-201458
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git 33c0c9bdf7a59051a654cd98b7d2b48ce0080967
compiler: riscv64-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>


cppcheck possible warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>, may not real problems)

   drivers/base/core.c:3196:10: warning: Identical inner 'return' condition is always true. [identicalInnerCondition]
     return *tmp;
            ^
   drivers/base/core.c:3195:6: note: outer condition: *tmp
    if (*tmp)
        ^
   drivers/base/core.c:3196:10: note: identical inner condition: *tmp
     return *tmp;
            ^
   drivers/base/core.c:3202:10: warning: Identical inner 'return' condition is always true. [identicalInnerCondition]
     return *tmp;
            ^
   drivers/base/core.c:3201:6: note: outer condition: *tmp
    if (*tmp)
        ^
   drivers/base/core.c:3202:10: note: identical inner condition: *tmp
     return *tmp;
            ^
>> drivers/base/core.c:1725:6: warning: Unused variable: val [unusedVariable]
    int val;
        ^

vim +1725 drivers/base/core.c

ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1719  
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1720  ssize_t device_store_int(struct device *dev,
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1721  			 struct device_attribute *attr,
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1722  			 const char *buf, size_t size)
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1723  {
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1724  	struct dev_ext_attribute *ea = to_ext_attr(attr);
e7443ff26978ad Alexey Dobriyan 2020-11-22 @1725  	int val;
f88184bfee48d4 Kaitao cheng    2018-11-06  1726  	int ret;
f88184bfee48d4 Kaitao cheng    2018-11-06  1727  
e7443ff26978ad Alexey Dobriyan 2020-11-22  1728  	ret = kstrtoint(buf, 0, (int *)ea->var);
f88184bfee48d4 Kaitao cheng    2018-11-06  1729  	if (ret)
f88184bfee48d4 Kaitao cheng    2018-11-06  1730  		return ret;
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1731  	/* Always return full write size even if we didn't consume all */
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1732  	return size;
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1733  }
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1734  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_store_int);
ca22e56debc57b Kay Sievers     2011-12-14  1735  

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