From: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
To: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
Alexander Viro <[email protected]>,
linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
io-uring <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: io_uring: process task work in io_uring_register()
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 21:13:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez1i9pTYihJAd8sXC5BdP+5fLO-mcqDU1TdA2C3bKTXYCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 8:24 PM Colin Ian King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Static analysis with Coverity has detected a "dead-code" issue with the
> following commit:
>
> commit af9c1a44f8dee7a958e07977f24ba40e3c770987
> Author: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu Sep 24 13:32:18 2020 -0600
>
> io_uring: process task work in io_uring_register()
>
> The analysis is as follows:
>
> 9513 do {
> 9514 ret =
> wait_for_completion_interruptible(&ctx->ref_comp);
>
> cond_const: Condition ret, taking false branch. Now the value of ret is
> equal to 0.
Does this mean Coverity is claiming that
wait_for_completion_interruptible() can't return non-zero values? If
so, can you figure out why Coverity thinks that? If that was true,
it'd sound like a core kernel bug, rather than a uring issue...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 18:23 io_uring: process task work in io_uring_register() Colin Ian King
2020-10-08 19:13 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2020-10-08 19:14 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-09 1:09 ` Jens Axboe
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