netdev - Re: [PATCH] ath: ath6kl: fix error return code of ath6kl_htc_rx

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Date:   Sun, 7 Mar 2021 14:28:40 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath: ath6kl: fix error return code of
 ath6kl_htc_rx_bundle()

On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 05:31:01PM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> Hi Leon,
>
> I am quite sorry for my incorrect patches...
> My static analysis tool reports some possible bugs about error handling
> code, and thus I write some patches for the bugs that seem to be true in my
> opinion.
> Because I am not familiar with many device drivers, some of my reported bugs
> can be false positives...

It will be much helpful if instead of writing new static analysis tool,
you will invest time and improve existing well known tools, like smatch
and sparse.

Right now, you didn't report bugs, but sent bunch of patches that most
of the time are incorrect. So it is not "some of my reported bugs can
be false positives...", but "some of my patches can fix real bugs by
chance".

Thanks