Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: gyro: check sscanf return value

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On 03/11/15 09:22, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 11/01/2015 07:17 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 01/11/15 12:58, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
>>> This patch fixes the checkpatch warnings:
>>> WARNING: unchecked sscanf return value
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Hi Ioana,
>>
>> Couple of minor process points (the patches are fine!)
>>
>> You should have cc'd the driver author and generally also
>> the various listed reviewers in MAINTAINERS.  In this case
>> of of them is the driver author so possibly just pinging him
>> is the way to go.  In the case of Analog devices parts,
>> Lars-Peter is also the maintainer so it's all about as
>> easy as it gets in this case.
>>
>> Lars, looks fine to me.  Your driver so please sanity check.
>> Clearly it's not a bug as the inputs are entirely controlled
>> by the driver code, but I think having a sanity check on
>> the return value is a good thing (from the point of view of
>> best practice). 
> 
> As you say strictly speaking it is not necessary, but if it makes checkpatch
> happy why not.
> 
> Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git - initially pushed out as testing
for the autobuilders to try and break it.

Thanks,

jonathan
> 
> 
>>
>> There is a second patch for some the IIO drivers that are your
>> problem as well - I'll let you pull that off the list as I'm
>> feeling lazy ;)
>>
>> I did have to check that sscanf never returns any more helpful
>> error codes, but unlike the glibc one it seems not.  What fun.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>> ---
>>>
>>> based on linux-iio/testing branch
>>>
>>>  drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c | 4 +++-
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c b/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c
>>> index 26de876..bb09bff 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/iio/gyro/adis16136.c
>>> @@ -435,7 +435,9 @@ static int adis16136_initial_setup(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
>>>  	if (ret)
>>>  		return ret;
>>>  
>>> -	sscanf(indio_dev->name, "adis%u\n", &device_id);
>>> +	ret = sscanf(indio_dev->name, "adis%u\n", &device_id);
>>> +	if (ret != 1)
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>>  
>>>  	if (prod_id != device_id)
>>>  		dev_warn(&indio_dev->dev, "Device ID(%u) and product ID(%u) do not match.",
>>>
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