[PATCH] crypto: stm32/crc32 - fix parsing list of devices

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu Dec 21 20:42:06 PST 2023


On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:17:24PM +0100, Thomas Bourgoin wrote:
> smatch warnings:
> drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-crc32.c:108 stm32_crc_get_next_crc() warn:
> can 'crc' even be NULL?
> 
> Use list_first_entry_or_null instead of list_first_entry to retrieve
> the first device registered.
> The function list_first_entry always return a non NULL pointer even if
> the list is empty. Hence checking if the pointer returned is NULL does
> not tell if the list is empty or not.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311281111.ou2oUL2i-lkp@intel.com/
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202311281111.ou2oUL2i-lkp@intel.com/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bourgoin <thomas.bourgoin at foss.st.com>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-crc32.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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