Hi Alan, On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 02:39:23PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, Eugeniu Rosca wrote: > > [1] (v5.6-rc3) git grep -En "[^=]\s+usb_autopm_get_interface\(" > > drivers/input/touchscreen/usbtouchscreen.c:1788: usb_autopm_get_interface(intf); > > drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c:628: usb_autopm_get_interface(dev->interface); > > drivers/net/usb/hso.c:1308: usb_autopm_get_interface(serial->parent->interface); > > drivers/net/usb/r8152.c:5231: usb_autopm_get_interface(tp->intf); > > sound/usb/usx2y/us122l.c:192: usb_autopm_get_interface(iface); > > Your regular expression isn't right because it doesn't match lines > where the usb_autopm_get_interface() is preceded only by one whitespace > character (i.e., a tab). It also will match lines where there are two > space characters between the = sign and the function name. I think > what you want is more like "(^|[^=[:space:]])\s*" at the start of the > RE. Agreed. My version filters out some true positives. > > A revised search finds line 997 in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and lines > 216, 269 in drivers/usb/core/port.c. (I didn't try looking in any > other directories.) AFAICT all three of these should check the return > value, although a error message in the kernel log probably isn't > needed. > > Do you want to fix those instances up also, maybe merging them in with > the existing patch? I wonder if squashing all these fixes into one patch is the best option. There are three commits fixed by the proposed changes in usb core: - v5.6-rc3 commit 1208f9e1d758c9 ("USB: hub: Fix the broken detection of USB3 device in SMSC hub") - v3.9-rc1 commit 971fcd492cebf5 ("usb: add runtime pm support for usb port device") - v2.6.33-rc1 commit 253e05724f9230 ("USB: add a "remove hardware" sysfs attribute") I assume a single fix will create some pain when applying it to the stable branches. Do you have any preference/inputs about that? -- Best Regards Eugeniu Rosca