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From: Tanya Agarwal <tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.com>
To: haren@us.ibm.com
Cc: ddstreet@ieee.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	Markus.Elfring@web.de, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
	anupnewsmail@gmail.com, tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH V3] lib: 842: Improve error handling in sw842_compress()
Date: Sun,  5 Jan 2025 00:19:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250104184951.3481-1-tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Tanya Agarwal <tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.com>

The static code analysis tool "Coverity Scan" pointed the following
implementation details out for further development considerations:
CID 1309755: Unused value
In sw842_compress: A value assigned to a variable is never used. (CWE-563)
returned_value: Assigning value from add_repeat_template(p, repeat_count)
to ret here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used.

Conclusion:
Add error handling for the return value from an add_repeat_template()
call.

Fixes: 2da572c959dd ("lib: add software 842 compression/decompression")
Signed-off-by: Tanya Agarwal <tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.com>
---
V3: update title and reorganize commit description
V2: add Fixes tag and reword commit description

Coverity Link:
https://scan5.scan.coverity.com/#/project-view/63683/10063?selectedIssue=1309755

 lib/842/842_compress.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/842/842_compress.c b/lib/842/842_compress.c
index c02baa4168e1..055356508d97 100644
--- a/lib/842/842_compress.c
+++ b/lib/842/842_compress.c
@@ -532,6 +532,8 @@ int sw842_compress(const u8 *in, unsigned int ilen,
 		}
 		if (repeat_count) {
 			ret = add_repeat_template(p, repeat_count);
+			if (ret)
+				return ret;
 			repeat_count = 0;
 			if (next == last) /* reached max repeat bits */
 				goto repeat;
-- 
2.39.5


             reply	other threads:[~2025-01-04 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-04 18:49 Tanya Agarwal [this message]
2025-01-05  1:06 ` Kuan-Wei Chiu
2025-01-14  3:45 ` Herbert Xu
2025-01-14 14:13   ` Tanya Agarwal

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