Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20221102 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: Mon Oct 31 20:18:38 2022 -0300 147393321d65 ("iommufd: Add a selftest") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1527089: Control flow issues (UNREACHABLE) /drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c: 248 in get_md_pagetable() 242 IOMMUFD_OBJ_HW_PAGETABLE); 243 if (IS_ERR(obj)) 244 return ERR_CAST(obj); 245 hwpt = container_of(obj, struct iommufd_hw_pagetable, obj); 246 if (hwpt->domain->ops != mock_ops.default_domain_ops) { 247 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); vvv CID 1527089: Control flow issues (UNREACHABLE) vvv This code cannot be reached: "iommufd_put_object(&hwpt->o...". 248 iommufd_put_object(&hwpt->obj); 249 } 250 *mock = container_of(hwpt->domain, struct mock_iommu_domain, domain); 251 return hwpt; 252 } 253 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: 1527089 ("Control flow issues") Fixes: 147393321d65 ("iommufd: Add a selftest") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot