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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jaehee Park <jhpark1013@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>,
	Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, phil@philpotter.co.uk,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] staging: r8188eu: remove unused member free_bss_buf
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:13:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220422161335.GL2484@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220420173926.GE2969@kadam>

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:39:26PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > >    Another is idea is that when you have pnetwork++ and it's a NULL
> > >    pointer then print an error message.  Or even potentially NULL.
> > >    There are various heuristics to use which mean that "A reasonable
> > >    person would think this could be NULL".
> > > 

I wrote the check but it turns out none of the results are that
interesting after all.

drivers/atm/horizon.c:1844 hrz_init() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'mem' rl='0'
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c:665 qla24xx_build_scsi_type_6_iocbs() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'cur_dsd' rl='4097-ptr_max'
drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be_main.c:2686 beiscsi_init_wrb_handle() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'pwrb' rl='0-u64max'
drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c:2304 nv_start_xmit() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'tmp_tx_ctx' rl='0-u64max'
drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c:2482 nv_start_xmit_optimized() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'tmp_tx_ctx' rl='0-u64max'
arch/x86/boot/cmdline.c:66 __cmdline_find_option() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'opptr' rl='0,4096-ptr_max'
arch/x86/boot/compressed/../cmdline.c:66 __cmdline_find_option() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'opptr' rl='0,4096-ptr_max'
arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c:84 __cmdline_find_option_bool() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'opptr' rl='1295896293336907776,2458024882201202688,3889929980400390144,6141874131669250048,6180548506814574592,6275458169940578304,6344884530654208000'
arch/x86/lib/cmdline.c:167 __cmdline_find_option() warn: incrementing NULL pointer 'opptr' rl='0-u64max'

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-22 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-19 18:19 [PATCH v3 0/7] staging: r8188eu: fix warnings reported by checkpatch Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] staging: r8188eu: remove unused member free_bss_buf Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 19:27   ` Pavel Skripkin
2022-04-20 11:55     ` Dan Carpenter
2022-04-20 14:48       ` Jaehee Park
2022-04-20 17:39         ` Dan Carpenter
2022-04-22 16:13           ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-04-20 16:33   ` Greg KH
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] staging: r8188eu: remove spaces before tabs Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] staging: r8188eu: remove 'added by' author comments Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] staging: r8188eu: place constants on the right side of tests Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] staging: r8188eu: replace spaces with tabs Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] staging: r8188eu: correct typo in comments Jaehee Park
2022-04-19 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] staging: r8188eu: remove unused else condition Jaehee Park

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