Hi, Static analysis with Coverity on linux-next today has detected an issue in the following commit: commit cc0ee20bd96971c10eba9a83ecf1c0733078a083 Author: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 5 20:36:52 2020 +0300 vfio/fsl-mc: trigger an interrupt via eventfd The analysis is as follows: 106 static int vfio_fsl_mc_set_irq_trigger(struct vfio_fsl_mc_device *vdev, 107 unsigned int index, unsigned int start, 108 unsigned int count, u32 flags, 109 void *data) 110 { 111 struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev = vdev->mc_dev; 112 int ret, hwirq; 113 struct vfio_fsl_mc_irq *irq; 114 struct device *cont_dev = fsl_mc_cont_dev(&mc_dev->dev); 115 struct fsl_mc_device *mc_cont = to_fsl_mc_device(cont_dev); 116 cond_const: Condition count != 1U, taking false branch. Now the value of count is equal to 1. 117 if (start != 0 || count != 1) 118 return -EINVAL; 119 120 mutex_lock(&vdev->reflck->lock); 121 ret = fsl_mc_populate_irq_pool(mc_cont, 122 FSL_MC_IRQ_POOL_MAX_TOTAL_IRQS); 123 if (ret) 124 goto unlock; 125 126 ret = vfio_fsl_mc_irqs_allocate(vdev); 127 if (ret) 128 goto unlock; 129 mutex_unlock(&vdev->reflck->lock); 130 const: At condition count, the value of count must be equal to 1. dead_error_condition: The condition !count cannot be true. Logically dead code (DEADCODE) dead_error_line: Execution cannot reach the expression flags & 1U inside this statement: if (!count && flags & 1U) .... 131 if (!count && (flags & VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE)) 132 return vfio_set_trigger(vdev, index, -1); At line 131, count is 1 because of the check and return on lines 117-118. !count is 0, and so 0 && (flags & VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE) is always false, so the vfio_set_trigger is never called. I suspect that was not the intention. Colin