Hello! This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20191108 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: 0c65b2b90d13 ("net: of_get_phy_mode: Change API to solve int/unit warnings") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1487850: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) /drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c: 1227 in rk_gmac_setup() 1221 int value; 1222 1223 bsp_priv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*bsp_priv), GFP_KERNEL); 1224 if (!bsp_priv) 1225 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); 1226 vvv CID 1487850: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) vvv Calling "of_get_phy_mode" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 43 out of 44 times). 1227 of_get_phy_mode(dev->of_node, &bsp_priv->phy_iface); 1228 bsp_priv->ops = ops; 1229 1230 bsp_priv->regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "phy"); 1231 if (IS_ERR(bsp_priv->regulator)) { 1232 if (PTR_ERR(bsp_priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { 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: 1487850 ("Error handling issues") Fixes: 0c65b2b90d13 ("net: of_get_phy_mode: Change API to solve int/unit warnings") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot