On 15.03.2023 00:28, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> The left side of the loop condition never becomes false.
>>> hwchan cannot be NULL, because it points to elements of the
>>> hw_channels array that takes one of 4 predefined values:
>>> pm8018_xoadc_channels, pm8038_xoadc_channels,
>>> pm8058_xoadc_channels, pm8921_xoadc_channels.
>>>
>>> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
>>
>> I am not impressed with that tool. See below:
>>
>>> Fixes: 63c3ecd946d4 ("iio: adc: add a driver for Qualcomm PM8xxx HK/XOADC")
>>> Signed-off-by: Kasumov Ruslan <s02210418@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> (...)
>>> hwchan = &hw_channels[0];
>>> - while (hwchan && hwchan->datasheet_name) {
>>> + while (hwchan->datasheet_name) {
>>> if (hwchan->pre_scale_mux == pre_scale_mux &&
>>> hwchan->amux_channel == amux_channel)
>>> break;
>>
>> NAK have you tested this on a real system?
>>
>> Here is the complete loop:
>>
>> hwchan = &hw_channels[0];
>> while (hwchan && hwchan->datasheet_name) {
>> if (hwchan->pre_scale_mux == pre_scale_mux &&
>> hwchan->amux_channel == amux_channel)
>> break;
>> hwchan++;
>
> ops, yes, sorry, I overlooked at this... This becomes NULL at
> some point as there is a sentinel in the _variant structures.
>
Could you please clarify what do you mean.
As far as I can see sentinel is an "empty" element of xoadc_channel in
the array, i.e. hwchan->datasheet_name works as a sentinel while hwchan
is always non NULL.
--
Alexey
