Hi julia, I think it would be better to extract the assignment out of the if clause. Then you'll get something like this: memory = ...; if (IS_ERR(memory)) { .... } so, to answer your question: no, it isn't necessary. On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a false positive, but I wonder if it is really necessary to put > the assignment in the conditional test expression. > > julia > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:23:36 +0800 > From: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > To: kbuild@xxxxxx > Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/mmu: fix odd_ptr_err.cocci warnings > > CC: kbuild-all@xxxxxx > CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > TO: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> > CC: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > CC: nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/uvmm.c:109:5-11: inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR on line 110. > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/uvmm.c:109:5-11: inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR on line 111. > > PTR_ERR should access the value just tested by IS_ERR > > Semantic patch information: > There can be false positives in the patch case, where it is the call to > IS_ERR that is wrong. > > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/tests/odd_ptr_err.cocci > > Fixes: 920d2b5ef215 ("drm/nouveau/mmu: define user interfaces to mmu vmm opertaions") > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Please take the patch only if it's a positive warning. Thanks! > > uvmm.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/uvmm.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/mmu/uvmm.c > @@ -107,8 +107,9 @@ nvkm_uvmm_mthd_map(struct nvkm_uvmm *uvm > return ret; > > if (IS_ERR((memory = nvkm_umem_search(client, handle)))) { > - VMM_DEBUG(vmm, "memory %016llx %ld\n", handle, PTR_ERR(memory)); > - return PTR_ERR(memory); > + VMM_DEBUG(vmm, "memory %016llx %ld\n", handle, > + PTR_ERR((memory = nvkm_umem_search(client, handle)))); > + return PTR_ERR((memory = nvkm_umem_search(client, handle))); > } > > mutex_lock(&vmm->mutex); > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel