Hi,
On 7/2/19 6:30 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:58:02 +0100
> Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 16:56, Alex Williamson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> When we're emulating writes to the MSI-X vector table we have no
>>> failure path up to the guest.  Real hardware cannot fail to enable a
>>> vector that's available in hardware, thus we can either log the issue,
>>> ignore the issue, or fault.  I guess Coverity is simply noting that
>>> other cases are tested while this is not, therefore we should either
>>> explicitly ignore the return value with a cast to void or take this as
>>> an opportunity to log the fault, which might be useful in debugging a
>>> device that isn't working properly.  Thanks,  
>>
>> Yeah, Coverity's check here is purely a heuristic ("did we seem
>> to check returns from this function in other places?") so it's
>> wrong sometimes. If you want me to mark this as a false positive
>> in the coverity UI I can do that.
> 
> TBH, it seems like a good nag to log it properly.  Eric, do you mind
> posting a fix to do that?  Thanks,
Sure I will send a fix.

Thanks

Eric
> 
> Alex
> 

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