Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20221110 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 Oct 27 14:37:38 2022 +0300 153e4ad44d60 ("media: i2c: Add driver for ST VGXY61 camera sensor") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1527250: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT) drivers/media/i2c/st-vgxy61.c:1626 in vgxy61_patch() 1620 1621 ret = vgxy61_poll_reg(sensor, VGXY61_REG_STBY, 0, VGXY61_TIMEOUT_MS); 1622 if (ret) 1623 return ret; 1624 1625 patch = vgxy61_read_reg(sensor, VGXY61_REG_FWPATCH_REVISION); vvv CID 1527250: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT) vvv This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned value is never true. "patch < 0". 1626 if (patch < 0) 1627 return patch; 1628 1629 if (patch != (VGXY61_FWPATCH_REVISION_MAJOR << 12) + 1630 (VGXY61_FWPATCH_REVISION_MINOR << 8) + 1631 VGXY61_FWPATCH_REVISION_MICRO) { 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: 1527250 ("Control flow issues") Fixes: 153e4ad44d60 ("media: i2c: Add driver for ST VGXY61 camera sensor") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot