Re: [PATCH][next] USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix less than zero comparison of an unsigned int

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Sat May 16 2020 - 05:25:40 EST


On 16/05/2020 07:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:21:21PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:54:53PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The comparison of hcd->irq to less than zero for an error check will
>>> never be true because hcd->irq is an unsigned int. Fix this by
>>> assigning the int retval to the return of platform_get_irq and checking
>>> this for the -ve error condition and assigning hcd->irq to retval.
>>>
>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
>>> Fixes: c856b4b0fdb5 ("USB: EHCI: ehci-mv: fix error handling in mv_ehci_probe()")
>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>
>> Thanks to Coverity for spotting this. Any reason why it didn't spot
>> exactly the same mistake in the ohci-da8xx.c driver?
>
> I think Coverity only runs on a limited kernel configuration and does
> not build everything :(
>
I do x86-64 make allmodconfig builds, so it does a fair amount of
coverage on the builds

Colin