I am trying to address CHECK warnings in my driver and wondering how to
resolve 'warning: testing a 'safe expression' which appears when using
IS_ERR_OR_NULL(foo)
where foo is defined as
struct foo_type *foo;
The foo get assigned only NULL or ERR_PTR(error code). So I believe the
usage is correct. But then how do I make the CHECK happy of its usage?
I have tried a grep to check on the current usage of IS_ERR_OR_NULL()
and found 276 of them causes this warning in the v3.18 version of the
kernel that I am using
$ grep -r "warning: testing a 'safe expression" * | wc -l
276
Can someone help me undestand what this means and how to fix the same?
I run folling for CHECK
make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" CHECK=sparse
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Texas Instruments
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