From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] alpha: Move two assignments for the variable "res" in srm_env_proc_write()
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:14:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170118131429.GA12614@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <986573fa-e636-f864-14dc-5e65a31b454e@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Wed, 2017-01-18 12:50:17 +0100, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:08:44 +0100
>
> A local variable was set to an error code in two cases before a concrete
> error situation was detected. Thus move the corresponding assignment into
> an if branch to indicate a software failure there.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
MfG, JBG
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-18 11:40 [PATCH 0/4] alpha: Fine-tuning for five function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 11:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] alpha: Return an error code only as a constant in osf_sigstack() SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] alpha: Move two assignments for the variable "error" in osf_utsname() SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 11:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] alpha: Return directly after a failed copy_from_user() or getname() in two functions SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 11:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] alpha: Move two assignments for the variable "res" in srm_env_proc_write() SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 13:14 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2017-01-18 14:27 ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 14:11 ` Al Viro
2017-01-18 15:41 ` alpha: Checking source code positions for the setting of error codes SF Markus Elfring
2017-01-18 17:43 ` Al Viro
2017-01-19 0:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] alpha: Move two assignments for the variable "res" in srm_env_proc_write() kbuild test robot
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