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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: madera: Fix uninitialized variable bug in madera_mux_set_mux
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:13 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote:

> There is a potential execution path in which variable *ret* is checked
> in an IF statement, and then its value is used to report an error at
> line 659 without being properly initialized previously:
>
> 659 if (ret)
> 660 dev_err(priv->dev, "Failed to write to 0x%x (%d)\n", reg, ret);
>
> Fix this by initializing variable *ret* to 0 in order to
> avoid unpredictable or unintended results.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1471969 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: 218d72a77b0b ("pinctrl: madera: Add driver for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Initialize variable ret to 0 instead of -1. Thanks to Charles Keepax
> for pointing this out.
> - Update subject and commit log.

Patch applied with Charles' ACK.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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