Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20200417 as part of the linux-next 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: Thu Apr 2 14:53:02 2020 +0800 cd1b7ae3435c ("crypto: hisilicon - unify SR-IOV related codes into QM") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1492651: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) /drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c: 2317 in qm_vf_q_assign() 2311 for (i = 1; i <= num_vfs; i++) { 2312 if (i == num_vfs) 2313 q_num += remain_q_num % num_vfs; 2314 ret = hisi_qm_set_vft(qm, i, q_base, q_num); 2315 if (ret) { 2316 for (j = i; j > 0; j--) vvv CID 1492651: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) vvv Calling "hisi_qm_set_vft" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 4 out of 5 times). 2317 hisi_qm_set_vft(qm, j, 0, 0); 2318 return ret; 2319 } 2320 q_base += q_num; 2321 } 2322 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: 1492651 ("Error handling issues") Fixes: cd1b7ae3435c ("crypto: hisilicon - unify SR-IOV related codes into QM") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot