On Mon, 28 May 2018 00:49:03 +0200,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On May 28 2018 06:32, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The negative error return from the call to to_sndif_format is being
> > assigned to an unsigned 8 bit integer and hence the check for a negative
> > value is always going to be false. Fix this by using ret as the error
> > return and hence the negative error can be detected and assign
> > the u8 sndif_format to ret if there is no error.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469385 ("Unsigned compared against 0")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c | 7 ++++---
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c b/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c
> > index 5041f83e98d2..5a2bd70a2fa1 100644
> > --- a/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c
> > +++ b/sound/xen/xen_snd_front_alsa.c
> > @@ -466,13 +466,14 @@ static int alsa_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> > u8 sndif_format;
> > int ret;
> > - sndif_format = to_sndif_format(runtime->format);
> > - if (sndif_format < 0) {
> > + ret = to_sndif_format(runtime->format);
> > + if (ret < 0) {
> > dev_err(&stream->front_info->xb_dev->dev,
> > "Unsupported sample format: %d\n",
> > runtime->format);
> > - return sndif_format;
> > + return ret;
> > }
> > + sndif_format = ret;
> > ret =
> > xen_snd_front_stream_prepare(&stream->evt_pair->req,
> > &stream->sh_buf,
>
> Indeed. A typical assignment mistake. Instead, we could change the
> type of 'sndif_format' to signed int, however in this case it's not
> the same as the third argument of xen_snd_front_stream_prepare()
> because it is 'u8'. This patch looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, thanks.
Takashi
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