netdev - Re: ath11k: initialize wmi config based on hw

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Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:04:16 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Carl Huang <cjhuang@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, ath11k@...ts.infradead.org,
        "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ath11k: initialize wmi config based on hw_params

Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> static analysis with Coverity has detected a duplicated assignment issue
> with the following commit:
>
> commit 2d4bcbed5b7d53e19fc158885e7340b464b64507
> Author: Carl Huang <cjhuang@...eaurora.org>
> Date:   Mon Aug 17 13:31:51 2020 +0300
>
>     ath11k: initialize wmi config based on hw_params
>
> The analysis is as follows:
>
>
>  74        config->beacon_tx_offload_max_vdev = 0x2;
>  75        config->num_multicast_filter_entries = 0x20;
>  76        config->num_wow_filters = 0x16;
>
> Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE)
> assigned_value: Assigning value 1U to config->num_keep_alive_pattern
> here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used.
>  77        config->num_keep_alive_pattern = 0x1;
>
> value_overwrite: Overwriting previous write to
> config->num_keep_alive_pattern with value 0U.
>
>  78        config->num_keep_alive_pattern = 0;
>
>
> I'm not sure if one of these assignments is redundant, or perhaps one of
> the assignments is meant to be setting a different structure element.

0x1 assignment should be removed, I'll send a patch.

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