Smatch report for drivers/fpga/socfpga_gen5.c

Andrew Goodbody andrew.goodbody at linaro.org
Mon Jul 28 13:25:09 CEST 2025


On 25/07/2025 13:22, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 25.07.25 13:09, Andrew Goodbody wrote:
>> Smatch reports this issue
>>
>> drivers/fpga/socfpga_gen5.c:135 fpgamgr_program_poll_cd() warn: 
>> duplicate check 'reg & mask' (previous on line 129)
>>
>> Looking at the code I am not sure that it will work as intended. There 
>> are two if statements within the for loop that test for opposite 
>> conditions so could easily be combined into if..else with a single 
>> test. But also both if statements result in the for loop being exited, 
>> and one of them must be satisfied so the for loop can only ever be 
>> executed once. This surely must not be the intention. It is not clear 
>> to me whether the error test is wrong and should be changed to a 
>> different test or it should simply be removed. Could you take a look 
>> please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
> 
> As we have been running with a single iteration since 2017, probably the 
> for loop and the if statement relating to FPGA_TIMEOUT_CNT should be 
> removed.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich

Thanks.

Patch coming.

Andrew


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