Re: [PATCH 0/7] Fix various compilation issues with wfx driver

[Dan Carpenter]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 03:13:14PM +0000, Jerome Pouiller wrote:
> On Tuesday 8 October 2019 17:10:56 CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:42:47AM +0000, Jerome Pouiller wrote:
> > > From: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Most of problems are related to big-endian architectures.
> > 
> > kbuild still reports 2 errors with these patches applied:
> > 
> > Regressions in current branch:
> > 
> > drivers/staging/wfx/hif_tx.c:82:2-8: preceding lock on line 65
> 
> As I replied to Julia, this behavior is intended.
> 
> > drivers/staging/wfx/main.c:188:14-21: ERROR: PTR_ERR applied after initialization to constant on line 183
> 
> This is a false positive, as confirmed by Dan.
> 
> You may also notice:
> 
>   drivers/staging/wfx/scan.c:207 wfx_scan_work() warn: inconsistent returns 'sem:&wvif->scan.lock'
> 
> I also consider it as a false positive.

Yeah.  I thought it might be.  The beauty of 0day bot is that normally
the warnings come really quick after the original author wrote the code
so it's fresh in their heads.  I suspected it might be a false positive
but I wasn't sure either way and I try not to spend a lot of time
reviewing those warnings.

regards,
dan carpenter