linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] ethernet: alt1: Fix missing DMA mapping tests

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Message-ID: <CA+eMeR2yEa4wsozLP94Zb2gQ67=xhC58PEdOKL8=RzaZotYhSQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:47:50 +0200
From: Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ethernet: alt1: Fix missing DMA mapping tests

On 16/06/2025 19:46, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:59:55 +0200 Thomas Fourier wrote:
>> According to Shuah Khan[1]
> Sorry for a non-technical question -- are you part of some outreach /
> training program? The presentation you linked is from 2013, I wonder
> what made you pick up this particular task.

I am doing a master thesis on static analysis and I am writing a checker
with

Smatch to test if error codes are well-checked.  My supervisor suggested
that

I look at DMA mapping errors checks to see if people were interested in such

patches and because they are quite easy to statically assert.