Coverity: mv88e6390_serdes_get_regs(): Error handling issues

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Hello!

This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity
from a scan of next-20200413 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 commits:

  Sun Feb 16 18:54:15 2020 +0100
    bf3504cea7d7 ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add 6390 family PCS registers to ethtool -d")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1461660:  Error handling issues  (CHECKED_RETURN)
/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/serdes.c: 958 in mv88e6390_serdes_get_regs()
952
953     	lane = mv88e6xxx_serdes_get_lane(chip, port);
954     	if (lane == 0)
955     		return;
956
957     	for (i = 0 ; i < ARRAY_SIZE(mv88e6390_serdes_regs); i++) {
vvv     CID 1461660:  Error handling issues  (CHECKED_RETURN)
vvv     Calling "mv88e6390_serdes_read" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 11 out of 13 times).
958     		mv88e6390_serdes_read(chip, lane, MDIO_MMD_PHYXS,
959     				      mv88e6390_serdes_regs[i], &reg);
960     		p[i] = reg;
961     	}

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: 1461660 ("Error handling issues")
Fixes: bf3504cea7d7 ("net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add 6390 family PCS registers to ethtool -d")

Thanks for your attention!

-- 
Coverity-bot



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