From: Julia Lawall <[email protected]> Typically, the return value desired for the failure of a function with an integer return value is a negative integer. In these cases, the return value is sometimes a negative integer and sometimes 0, due to a subsequent initialization of the return variable within the loop.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) //<smpl> @r exists@ identifier ret; position p; constant C; expression e1,e3,e4; statement S; @@ ret = -C ... when != ret = e3 when any if@p (...) S ... when any if (\(ret != 0\|ret < 0\|ret > 0\) || ...) { ... return ...; } ... when != ret = e3 when any *if@p (...) { ... when != ret = e4 return ret; } //</smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c index 1d5d31e..dc1404b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int __init create_setup_data_nodes(struct dentry *parent) { struct setup_data_node *node; struct setup_data *data; - int error = -ENOMEM; + int error; struct dentry *d; struct page *pg; u64 pa_data; @@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ static int __init create_setup_data_nodes(struct dentry *parent) while (pa_data) { node = kmalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!node) + if (!node) { + error = -ENOMEM; goto err_dir; + } pg = pfn_to_page((pa_data+sizeof(*data)-1) >> PAGE_SHIFT); if (PageHighMem(pg)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
