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From: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
To: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [bug report] io_uring: return iovec from __io_import_iovec
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 15:19:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211108134937.GA2863@kili>

On 11/8/21 13:49, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Pavel Begunkov,
> 
> The patch caa8fe6e86fd: "io_uring: return iovec from
> __io_import_iovec" from Oct 15, 2021, leads to the following Smatch
> static checker warning:
> 
> 	fs/io_uring.c:3218 __io_import_iovec()
> 	warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'
> 
[...]
>      3188
>      3189         BUILD_BUG_ON(ERR_PTR(0) != NULL);
> 
> This is super paranoid.  :P

A bit, but gives an idea about assumptions

>      3209                 ret = import_single_range(rw, buf, sqe_len, s->fast_iov, iter);
>      3210                 return ERR_PTR(ret);

if (ret)
	return ERR_PTR(ret);
return NULL;

How about this? I have some hope in compilers, should be
optimised out

-- 
Pavel Begunkov

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-08 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-08 13:49 [bug report] io_uring: return iovec from __io_import_iovec Dan Carpenter
2021-11-08 15:19 ` Pavel Begunkov [this message]
2021-11-08 15:30   ` Dan Carpenter

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