On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 05:29:26PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am in the process of fixing smatch warnings and errors in the
> rtlwifi family of drivers. Most are straight forward; however, some
> routines show info messages originating from an inline routine in
> the header files as follows:
> 
>   CHECK   drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/dm.c
> include/linux/etherdevice.h:278 ether_addr_equal_64bits() info:
> ignoring unreachable code.
> include/linux/etherdevice.h:278 ether_addr_equal_64bits() info:
> ignoring unreachable code.
> 
> The source code is a current pull of the mainline git tree. I'm not
> sure if this is a subtle case of unreachable code that I do not see,
> or if it is a smatch bug.

include/linux/etherdevice.h
   275          if (sizeof(fold) == 8)
   276                  return zap_last_2bytes(fold) == 0;
   277  
   278          fold |= zap_last_2bytes((*(unsigned long *)(addr1 + 4)) ^
   279                                  (*(unsigned long *)(addr2 + 4)));

It's hitting the (sizeof(fold) == 8) and returning.

regards,
dan carpenter