Coverity: txgbe_calc_eeprom_checksum(): Control flow issues

From: coverity-bot
Date: Fri Nov 04 2022 - 15:26:10 EST


Hello!

This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by
Coverity from a scan of next-20221104 as part of the linux-next scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan

You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

Wed Nov 2 12:31:23 2022 +0000
049fe5365324 ("net: txgbe: Add operations to interact with firmware")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1527152: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT)
drivers/net/ethernet/wangxun/txgbe/txgbe_hw.c:200 in txgbe_calc_eeprom_checksum()
194
195 for (i = 0; i < TXGBE_EEPROM_LAST_WORD; i++)
196 if (i != wxhw->eeprom.sw_region_offset + TXGBE_EEPROM_CHECKSUM)
197 *checksum += local_buffer[i];
198
199 *checksum = TXGBE_EEPROM_SUM - *checksum;
vvv CID 1527152: Control flow issues (NO_EFFECT)
vvv This less-than-zero comparison of an unsigned value is never true. "*checksum < 0".
200 if (*checksum < 0)
201 return -EINVAL;
202
203 if (eeprom_ptrs)
204 kvfree(eeprom_ptrs);
205

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527152 ("Control flow issues")
Fixes: 049fe5365324 ("net: txgbe: Add operations to interact with firmware")

Thanks for your attention!

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