Agreed! Will update accordingly.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 12:36 PM Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com> wrote:
> It works for me, better to override by:
>
> Status = EFI_SUCCESS;
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Hao Wu
>
>
>
> *From:* Ranbir Singh <rsi...@ventanamicro.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 12, 2023 3:01 PM
> *To:* Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com>
> *Cc:* devel@edk2.groups.io; Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru: Fix
> UNUSED_VALUE Coverity issue
>
>
>
> Thanks Hao for digging deeper into this.
>
>
>
> The if block itself might get knocked off in Release mode when there is
> only a DEBUG statement inside it and hence Coverity might still complain.
> So, we can override the Status value in this scenario inside the if block
> and then proceed normally - let me know if this is acceptable and I will
> update the patch as below then
>
> if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
> DEBUG ((DEBUG_WARN, "Set Drive Parameters Fail, Status = %r\n",
> Status));
>
> /* Ignore Warning and proceed normally */
>
> Status = 0;
> }
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ranbir Singh
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:08 AM Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Really sorry,
>
> After referring to the Information Technology - AT Attachment with Packet
> Interface (ATA/ATAPI) Specification,
> It seems to me that the commands being executed in function
> SetDriveParameters() are not mandatory during device initialization.
>
> 1. INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS command (ID 0x91h):
> This command got obsoleted since ATA/ATAPI-6 spec version.
> Also, the return status of SetDriveParameters() is irrelevant with the
> execution result of this command.
>
> 2. SET MULTIPLE MODE command (ID 0xC6h):
> My take is that this command is necessary if there is subsequent usage of
> command READ MULTIPLE, READ MULTIPLE EXT, WRITE MULTIPLE, or WRITE MULTIPLE
> EXT.
> I do not find usage of the above 4 commands within edk2, so I think the
> successful execution of SET MULTIPLE MODE command is not mandatory for
> detecting hard disk device.
>
> Based on the above findings, could you help to update the patch to:
> Status = SetDriveParameters (Instance, IdeChannel, IdeDevice,
> &DriveParameters, NULL);
>
> if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
> DEBUG ((DEBUG_WARN, "Set Drive Parameters Fail, Status = %r\n",
> Status));
> }
>
> Will doing so still please Coverity?
>
> Best Regards,
> Hao Wu
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ranbir Singh <rsi...@ventanamicro.com>
> > Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 8:33 PM
> > To: devel@edk2.groups.io; rsi...@ventanamicro.com
> > Cc: Wu, Hao A <hao.a...@intel.com>; Ni, Ray <ray...@intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru: Fix
> > UNUSED_VALUE Coverity issue
> >
> > From: Ranbir Singh <ranbir.sin...@dell.com>
> >
> > The return value stored in Status after call to SetDriveParameters
> > is not made of any use thereafter and hence it remains as UNUSED.
> >
> > Add error check as is done after calls to SetDeviceTransferMode.
> >
> > Cc: Hao A Wu <hao.a...@intel.com>
> > Cc: Ray Ni <ray...@intel.com>
> > REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4204
> > Signed-off-by: Ranbir Singh <ranbir.sin...@dell.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ranbir Singh <rsi...@ventanamicro.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Notes:
> > Add error check instead of Status storage removal
> >
> > MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru/IdeMode.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru/IdeMode.c
> > b/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru/IdeMode.c
> > index 75403886e44a..d04b1d95a7f5 100644
> > --- a/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru/IdeMode.c
> > +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Ata/AtaAtapiPassThru/IdeMode.c
> > @@ -2549,13 +2549,18 @@ DetectAndConfigIdeDevice (
> > //
> >
> > if (DeviceType == EfiIdeHarddisk) {
> >
> > //
> >
> > - // Init driver parameters
> >
> > + // Init drive parameters
> >
> > //
> >
> > DriveParameters.Sector = (UINT8)((ATA5_IDENTIFY_DATA
> > *)(&Buffer.AtaData))->sectors_per_track;
> >
> > DriveParameters.Heads = (UINT8)(((ATA5_IDENTIFY_DATA
> > *)(&Buffer.AtaData))->heads - 1);
> >
> > DriveParameters.MultipleSector = (UINT8)((ATA5_IDENTIFY_DATA
> > *)(&Buffer.AtaData))->multi_sector_cmd_max_sct_cnt;
> >
> >
> >
> > Status = SetDriveParameters (Instance, IdeChannel, IdeDevice,
> > &DriveParameters, NULL);
> >
> > +
> >
> > + if (EFI_ERROR (Status)) {
> >
> > + DEBUG ((DEBUG_ERROR, "Set Drive Parameters Fail, Status = %r\n",
> > Status));
> >
> > + continue;
> >
> > + }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > //
> >
> > --
> > 2.34.1
>
>
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