On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 10:14:55AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 01:30:12AM -0400, Ian Cowan wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:15:03AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > Hi Ian, > > > > > > When I compiled this patch series with smatch I got these warnings: > > > > > > zoran/videocodec.c:45 videocodec_attach() warn: variable dereferenced > > > before check 'master' (see line 40) > > > zoran/videocodec.c:115 videocodec_detach() warn: variable dereferenced > > > before check 'codec' (see line 111) > > > zoran/videocodec.c:168 videocodec_register() warn: variable dereferenced > > > before check 'codec' (see line 166) > > > zoran/videocodec.c:200 videocodec_unregister() warn: variable > > > dereferenced before check 'codec' (see line 198) > > > > > > And I also got this warning when checking the kerneldoc: > > > > > > zoran/zoran.h:307: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a > > > kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst > > > > > What did you use to see these issues? When I ran the checkpatch script > > and compiled, I did not see any of this. > > > > I have written a blog entry about checking kernel code with Smatch: > > https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2022/04/25/how-to-run-smatch-on-your-code/ > > regards, > dan carpenter >
Fantastic, I'll give that a read. Thanks! Ian _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
