linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd/uncore: fix error codes in amd_uncore

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:18:13 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc:     Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>,
        Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd/uncore: fix error codes in amd_uncore_init()


* Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:

> The surprising thing is the Clang doesn't detect the bug either.  It's
> strange.  (I found this bug with Smatch).

Yeah, that's weird and kind of concerning. I don't think either compiler is 
able to see that the init function return values are always ignored. I had 
to dig into init/main.c to convince myself.

> Also I notice that my Fixes tag wasn't correct either.  That patch did 
> have a missing error code bug, but "ret" was set to zero.  :/

Yeah, so I left the Fixes tag out of the commit anyway, because this isn't 
really a fix that -stable should concern itself with. After the first 
commit it's not even a fix per se, but an improvement in the resolution & 
meaning of error codes or so.

Thanks,

	Ingo