Hello! This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20191031 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits: c656aa4c27b1 ("nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1487395: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) /drivers/nfc/pn533/uart.c: 107 in pn532_dev_up() 101 } 102 103 static void pn532_dev_up(struct pn533 *dev) 104 { 105 struct pn532_uart_phy *pn532 = dev->phy; 106 vvv CID 1487395: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) vvv Calling "serdev_device_open" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 10 out of 11 times). 107 serdev_device_open(pn532->serdev); 108 pn532->send_wakeup = PN532_SEND_LAST_WAKEUP; 109 } 110 111 static void pn532_dev_down(struct pn533 *dev) 112 { If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1487395 ("Error handling issues") Fixes: c656aa4c27b1 ("nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot