Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20210608 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: Fri Jun 4 13:24:16 2021 +0200 063933f47a7a ("usb: typec: tcpm: Properly handle Alert and Status Messages") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1505153: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) /drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpm.c: 2227 in tcpm_handle_alert() 2221 } 2222 2223 /* Just handling non-battery alerts for now */ 2224 if (!(type & USB_PD_ADO_TYPE_BATT_STATUS_CHANGE)) { 2225 if (port->pwr_role == TYPEC_SOURCE) { 2226 port->upcoming_state = GET_STATUS_SEND; vvv CID 1505153: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) vvv Calling "tcpm_ams_start" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 15 out of 17 times). 2227 tcpm_ams_start(port, GETTING_SOURCE_SINK_STATUS); 2228 } else { 2229 /* 2230 * Do not check SinkTxOk here in case the Source doesn't set its Rp to 2231 * SinkTxOk in time. 2232 */ 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: 1505153 ("Error handling issues") Fixes: 063933f47a7a ("usb: typec: tcpm: Properly handle Alert and Status Messages") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot