linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fix fw is NULL but dereferenced

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Message-ID: <20210325105050.GW1717@kadam>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:50:50 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Jian Dong <dj0227@....com>
Cc:     vireshk@...nel.org, johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org, huyue2@...ong.com,
        Jian Dong <dongjian@...ong.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  staging: greybus: fix fw is NULL but dereferenced

The commit description is not clear but this patch doesn't change how
the code works, it just silences a static checker false positive.

Just ignore the false positive.  Always just ignore static checkers
when they are wrong.

regards,
dan carpenter