[PATCH] staging: wilc1000: fix static checker warning to unlock mutex in wilc_deinit()

Ajay Singh ajay.kathat at microchip.com
Thu Jul 5 09:19:48 UTC 2018


Hi Dan,

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 11:41:26 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:18:53AM +0530, Ajay Singh wrote:
> > Fix for static checker warning inconsistent returns of
> > 'hif_deinit_lock'(more details [1]).
> > 
> > "drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:3390 wilc_deinit()
> >               warn: inconsistent returns 'hif_deinit_lock'."
> > 
> > Introduced in "ff52a57a7a42: staging: wilc1000: move the allocation
> > of cmd out of wilc_enqueue_cmd()".  
> 
> Can you use the Fixes tag so it's machine parseable?
> 
> Fixes: ff52a57a7a42 ("staging: wilc1000: move the allocation of cmd
> out of wilc_enqueue_cmd()")

Thanks for your suggestion.
Will include the 'Fixes' tag and submit patch v2 version.

> 
> With the fixes tag, say someone pulls ff52a57a7a42 into their code,
> they will know to pull this patch as well.  Also scientists will be
> able to measure the time between bug and fix and write a scholarly
> paper about it.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter



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