Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 5 authors, 2016-02-12

[PATCH] tty/serial: digicolor: Fix bad usage of IS_ERR_VALUE

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2016-02-09 15:28:06
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On Tuesday 09 February 2016 07:08:59 Guenter Roeck wrote:
IS_ERR_VALUE() assumes that its parameter is an unsigned long.
It can not be used to check if an unsigned int reflects an error.
Doing so can result in the following build warning.

drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c: In function ?digicolor_uart_probe?:
include/linux/err.h:21:38: warning:
        comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
drivers/tty/serial/digicolor-usart.c:485:6: note:
        in expansion of macro ?IS_ERR_VALUE?

If that warning is seen, an error return from platform_get_irq() is missed.
The patch looks correct to me, but what compiler version and which kernel
tree is it that triggered the warning?

Andrzej Hajda just modified the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE(), and the
changes are still under discussion, but I don't see that warning with
any of the versions.

	Arnd
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