Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: cdev: fix stream_open.cocci warnings

From: Kent Gibson
Date: Thu May 05 2022 - 08:25:02 EST


On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 02:18:48PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 1:50 PM Yihao Han <hanyihao@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ./drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c:2498:7-23: WARNING:
> > gpio_fileops: .read() has stream semantic;
> > safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
> >
> > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/stream_open.cocci
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yihao Han <hanyihao@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
> > index f5aa5f93342a..d03c8e012c8c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
> > @@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@ static int gpio_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> > get_device(&gdev->dev);
> > file->private_data = cdev;
> >
> > - ret = nonseekable_open(inode, file);
> > + ret = stream_open(inode, file);
> > if (ret)
> > goto out_unregister_notifier;
> >
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
>
> Cc'ing Kent.
>
> This patch doesn't seem to target current master or rc1.
>
> It also can't be right - we specifically mark all filesystem objects
> exposed by the GPIO character device as non-seekable.
>

Agreed. I took the coccinelle warning as being a false positive.
If I recall correctly I had a quick look to see if it could be disabled,
but didn't find anything, and so just ignored it.

Cheers,
Kent.