re: mvpp2: XDP TX support

From: Colin Ian King
Date: Mon Jul 06 2020 - 09:59:29 EST


Hi,

Static analysis with Coverity has found a potential issue in the
following commit:

commit c2d6fe6163de80d7f7cf400ee351f56d6cdb7a5a
Author: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Jul 2 16:12:43 2020 +0200

mvpp2: XDP TX support


In source drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c in function
mvpp2_check_pagepool_dma, analysis is as follows:


4486 if (!priv->percpu_pools)
4487 return err;
4488
CID (#1 of 1): Array compared against 0 (NO_EFFECT)
array_null: Comparing an array to null is not useful: priv->page_pool,
since the test will always evaluate as true.

Was priv->page_pool formerly declared as a pointer?

4489 if (!priv->page_pool)
4490 return -ENOMEM;
4491


page_pool is declared as:

struct page_pool *page_pool[MVPP2_PORT_MAX_RXQ];

..it is an array and hence cannot be null, so the null check is
redundant. Later on there is a reference of priv->page_pool[0], so was
the check meant to be:

if (!priv->page_pool[0])

Colin