hwmon: (core) New hwmon registration API

Hello Guenter Roeck,

This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.

The patch d560168b5d0f: "hwmon: (core) New hwmon registration API" from Aug 26, 2015, leads to the following Smatch complaint:

drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c:624 __hwmon_device_register()
error: we previously assumed 'dev' could be null (see line 602)

drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
601 hdev->parent = dev;

   602		hdev->of_node = dev ? dev->of_node : NULL;
                                ^^^

I gotta be honest, I have no idea why my scripts say this is a new warning when it's 2 years old. This check feels like it could be deleted and perhaps that's why it didn't complain up to now. It tries to ignore extra harmless checks.

603 hwdev->chip = chip;
604 dev_set_drvdata(hdev, drvdata);
605 dev_set_name(hdev, HWMON_ID_FORMAT, id);
606 err = device_register(hdev);
607 if (err)
608 goto free_hwmon;
609
610 if (chip && chip->ops->read &&
611 chip->info[0]->type == hwmon_chip &&
612 (chip->info[0]->config[0] & HWMON_C_REGISTER_TZ)) {
613 const struct hwmon_channel_info **info = chip->info;
614
615 for (i = 1; info[i]; i++) {
616 if (info[i]->type != hwmon_temp)
617 continue;
618
619 for (j = 0; info[i]->config[j]; j++) {
620 if (!chip->ops->is_visible(drvdata, hwmon_temp,
621 hwmon_temp_input, j))
622 continue;
623 if (info[i]->config[j] & HWMON_T_INPUT)

   624						hwmon_thermal_add_sensor(dev, hwdev, j);
                                                                         ^^^

Dereference.

625 }
626 }

regards,
dan carpenter

Nevertheless it is a good warning. hwmon_thermal_add_sensor() calls devm_kzalloc() with dev as argument.

Guenter