Hi Colin, On 20/07/2020 17:13, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Currently the error return from the call to max9286_read is masked > with 0xf0 so the following check for a negative error return is > never true. Fix this by checking for an error first, then masking > the return value for subsequent conflink_mask checking. Ooops! > Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code") > fixes: 66d8c9d2422d ("media: i2c: Add MAX9286 driver") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c b/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c > index 47f280518fdb..b364a3f60486 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/max9286.c > @@ -405,10 +405,11 @@ static int max9286_check_config_link(struct max9286_priv *priv, > * to 5 milliseconds. > */ > for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { > - ret = max9286_read(priv, 0x49) & 0xf0; > + ret = max9286_read(priv, 0x49); > if (ret < 0) > return -EIO; > > + ret &= 0xf0; > if (ret == conflink_mask) > break; > >