Re: [PATCH v2] x86/microcode: Silence a static checker warning

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:55:10PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is just cleanups and doesn't change the behavior.

You can't return from in the middle of the loop just because the
allocation fails.

> The static checker is still going to complain about the error pointer
> from the loop.

Please drop this argument about the static checker which you write. I'm
certainly not changing code just because some tool complains.

> Perhaps we should only set prev_found if the memdup_patch()
> inside the loop succeeds?

This not why we set prev_found.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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