On 18/02/2016 at 17:13:18 +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote :
> On 18.02.2016 17:06, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
> > From: kbuild test robot <[email protected]>
> > 
> >  Since commit 1c6c69525b40 ("genirq: Reject bogus threaded irq requests")
> >  threaded IRQs without a primary handler need to be requested with
> >  IRQF_ONESHOT, otherwise the request will fail.
> > 
> >  So pass the IRQF_ONESHOT flag in this case.
> > 
> > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/misc/irqf_oneshot.cocci
> > 
> > CC: Laxman Dewangan <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/rtc/rtc-max77686.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Nack, because:
> 1. AFAIR this is a false positive.
> 2. Was it tested? Was it reproduced? Was the bug actually spotted or
> just coccicheck pointed this and you assumed that "request will fail"?
> 
> Coccicheck is a great tool... but not necessarily for pointing run-time
> bugs.
> 

Definitively a false positive.

Julia, I've been receiving quite a lot of those, is it possible to add a
note that this generates false positives to try to stop people from
blindly sending patches? I would have expected Valentin to know that
though.


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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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