Re: [PATCH 2/3] drivers/base: reorder consumer and its children behind suppliers

From: Pingfan Liu
Date: Thu Jun 28 2018 - 09:47:37 EST


On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:35 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:34:54AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > > 1b2a1e63 Pingfan Liu 2018-06-25 243 }
> > > 1b2a1e63 Pingfan Liu 2018-06-25 244 }
> > > 1b2a1e63 Pingfan Liu 2018-06-25 @245 BUG_ON(!ret);
> > >
> > > If the list is empty then "ret" can be unitialized. We test a different
> > > list "dev->links.suppliers" to see if that's empty. I wrote a bunch of
> > > code to make Smatch try to understand about empty lists, but I don't
> > > think it works...
> > >
> > Yes, if list_empty, then the code can not touch ret. But ret is
> > useless in this scene. Does it matter?
> >
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're asking? Of course, it matters?
>
Oh, I misunderstood your original comment. Yes, you are right. I will
fix it in next version, if this code section is still used.

Thanks and regards,
Pingfan