Re: [PATCH v2] paride/pcd: return earlier when an error happens in pcd_atapi()

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Jan 22 2023 - 17:10:26 EST


On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 01:49:00PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/22/23 8:49 AM, Tom Rix wrote:
> > clang static analysis reports
> > drivers/block/paride/pcd.c:856:36: warning: The left operand of '&'
> > is a garbage value [core.UndefinedBinaryOperatorResult]
> > tocentry->cdte_ctrl = buffer[5] & 0xf;
> > ~~~~~~~~~ ^
>
> Has this one been compiled? I'm guessing not tested...
>
> In any case, this code is going away hopefully shortly, so let's not
> bother with changes like this.

Look at the callers - the value left in entry is discarded if
->audio_ioctl(..., CDROMREADTOCENTRY, &entry) returns non-zero. Sure,
it's a nasal daemon territory, but realistically it's not going to be
caught by testing.