linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] mfd: ls2kbmc: Fix a couple Smatch warnings

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Message-ID: <aN_uCPqymUbVN34c@mail.minyard.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 10:38:48 -0500
From: Corey Minyard <corey@...yard.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@...ngson.cn>,
	Chong Qiao <qiaochong@...ngson.cn>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mfd: ls2kbmc: Fix a couple Smatch warnings

On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 12:28:58PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> These are two issues which were detected by Smatch.  They're not really
> going to happen in real life.  Small kmalloc()s can't fail.
> The devm_mfd_add_devices() function isn't going to fail either...
> 
> But still, they're worth fixing just for correctness sake.
> 
> Dan Carpenter (2):
>   mfd: ls2kbmc: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check in probe()
>   mfd: ls2kbmc: check for devm_mfd_add_devices() failure

Got them, thank you.  I'll get this in for 6.18.

-corey

> 
>  drivers/mfd/ls2k-bmc-core.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.51.0
>