Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fix coccinelle false positive on potential NULL dereference

From: Pei Xiao

Date: Sun Aug 02 2026 - 21:06:08 EST




在 2026/7/31 19:20, Greg KH 写道:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 04:44:52PM +0800, Pei Xiao wrote:
>> In gb_bootrom_get_firmware(), when fw is NULL, ret is already set to
>> ERRNO before jumping to the queue_work label, so !ret is always
>> false and fw->size is never dereferenced. Add an explicit NULL check
>> to silence a coccinelle false positive warning.
>
> Why not fix the coccinelle tool/script instead?
Maybe I need to learn coccinelle tool.

Thanks!
Pei.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h