Hi Dan.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:11:27PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Steffen Klassert,
>
> The patch 25393d3fc055: "net: Prepare gro for packet consuming gro
> callbacks" from Feb 15, 2017, leads to the following Smatch
> warning:
>
> net/core/dev.c:4522 dev_gro_receive()
> error: 'pp' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
>
> net/core/dev.c
> 4510 if (&ptype->list == head)
> 4511 goto normal;
> 4512
> 4513 if (IS_ERR(pp) && PTR_ERR(pp) == -EINPROGRESS) {
>
>
> Smatch sees this and assumes that it's possible for "pp" to be an error
> pointer that's not -EINPROGRESS.
pp can be either a vaild pointer, NULL or -EINPROGRESS,
nothing else. So I guess this is ok.
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