[PATCH 2/3] drivers/base: reorder consumer and its children behind suppliers

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Wed Jun 27 18:34:45 AEST 2018


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:34:54AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > 1b2a1e63 Pingfan Liu 2018-06-25  243            }
> > 1b2a1e63 Pingfan Liu 2018-06-25  244    }
> > 1b2a1e63 Pingfan Liu 2018-06-25 @245    BUG_ON(!ret);
> >
> > If the list is empty then "ret" can be unitialized.  We test a different
> > list "dev->links.suppliers" to see if that's empty.  I wrote a bunch of
> > code to make Smatch try to understand about empty lists, but I don't
> > think it works...
> >
> Yes, if list_empty, then the code can not touch ret. But ret is
> useless in this scene. Does it matter?
> 

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking?  Of course, it matters?

regards,
dan carpenter




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