Hello Michael Buesch, The patch 6bbc321a96d4: "b43: Add debugfs files for random SHM access" from Jun 19, 2008, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c:217 shm32write__write_file() warn: impossible condition '(mask > 4294967295) => (0-u32max > u32max)' drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c 198 static int shm32write__write_file(struct b43_wldev *dev, 199 const char *buf, size_t count) 200 { 201 unsigned int routing, addr, mask, set; 202 u32 val; 203 int res; 204 205 res = sscanf(buf, "0x%X 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X", 206 &routing, &addr, &mask, &set); 207 if (res != 4) 208 return -EINVAL; 209 if (routing > B43_MAX_SHM_ROUTING) 210 return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; 211 if (addr > B43_MAX_SHM_ADDR) 212 return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; 213 if (routing == B43_SHM_SHARED) { 214 if ((addr % 2) != 0) 215 return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; 216 } 217 if ((mask > 0xFFFFFFFF) || (set > 0xFFFFFFFF)) Both of these conditions are impossible. 218 return -E2BIG; 219 220 if (mask == 0) 221 val = 0; 222 else 223 val = b43_shm_read32(dev, routing, addr); 224 val &= mask; 225 val |= set; 226 b43_shm_write32(dev, routing, addr, val); 227 228 return 0; 229 } See also: drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c:346 mmio32write__write_file() warn: impossible condition '(mask > 4294967295) => (0-u32max > u32max)' drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c:346 mmio32write__write_file() warn: impossible condition '(set > 4294967295) => (0-u32max > u32max)' regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html