Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:08:47 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] x86/microcode: Silence a static checker warning |
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:58:44PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. >
I understand that.
> > 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.
Sure. But the point is the same... The "p" is an error pointer at the end of the function.
> > > Perhaps we should only set prev_found if the memdup_patch() > > inside the loop succeeds? > > This not why we set prev_found.
Sure.
regards, dan carpenter
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