Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20221104 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: Wed Nov 2 12:38:53 2022 +0000 3590918b5d07 ("net: ethernet: renesas: Add support for "Ethernet Switch"") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1527147: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT) drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c:270 in rswitch_gwca_queue_alloc_skb() 264 goto err; 265 } 266 267 return 0; 268 269 err: vvv CID 1527147: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT) vvv This greater-than-or-equal-to-zero comparison of an unsigned value is always true. "i >= 0U". 270 for (i--; i >= 0; i--) { 271 index = (i + start_index) % gq->ring_size; 272 dev_kfree_skb(gq->skbs[index]); 273 gq->skbs[index] = NULL; 274 } 275 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: 1527147 ("Control flow issues") Fixes: 3590918b5d07 ("net: ethernet: renesas: Add support for "Ethernet Switch"") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot