On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 05:29:26PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the process of fixing smatch warnings and errors in the > rtlwifi family of drivers. Most are straight forward; however, some > routines show info messages originating from an inline routine in > the header files as follows: > > CHECK drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/dm.c > include/linux/etherdevice.h:278 ether_addr_equal_64bits() info: > ignoring unreachable code. > include/linux/etherdevice.h:278 ether_addr_equal_64bits() info: > ignoring unreachable code. > > The source code is a current pull of the mainline git tree. I'm not > sure if this is a subtle case of unreachable code that I do not see, > or if it is a smatch bug. include/linux/etherdevice.h 275 if (sizeof(fold) == 8) 276 return zap_last_2bytes(fold) == 0; 277 278 fold |= zap_last_2bytes((*(unsigned long *)(addr1 + 4)) ^ 279 (*(unsigned long *)(addr2 + 4))); It's hitting the (sizeof(fold) == 8) and returning. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe smatch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html