Coverity: clean_tree(): Error handling issues
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This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20191108 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project:
https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan
You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits:
800350a3f145 ("net/mlx5: Avoid NULL pointer dereference on steering cleanup")
Coverity reported the following:
*** CID 1487837: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c: 2479 in clean_tree()
2473 static void clean_tree(struct fs_node *node)
2474 {
2475 if (node) {
2476 struct fs_node *iter;
2477 struct fs_node *temp;
2478
vvv CID 1487837: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN)
vvv Calling "tree_get_node" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 5 out of 6 times).
2479 tree_get_node(node);
2480 list_for_each_entry_safe(iter, temp, &node->children, list)
2481 clean_tree(iter);
2482 tree_put_node(node, false);
2483 tree_remove_node(node, false);
2484 }If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1487837 ("Error handling issues")
Thanks for your attention!
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