Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:45:20 +0530 | From | Vinod Koul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: st_fdma: fix uninitialized variable access |
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:09:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The newly added st_fdma driver introduces a build warning for > allmodconfig when we add '-Wmaybe-uninitialized': > > drivers/dma/st_fdma.c: In function 'st_fdma_probe': > drivers/dma/st_fdma.c:777:5: error: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] > > The warning is correct, though this can't happen in practice > as the check is redundant (we don't get to this function if > the pointer is NULL). Even if the function were called with a > NULL of_node, the check is not needed because of_property_read_u32 > can deal with a NULL argument by returning an error. > > Removing the unnecessary code simplifies the function and avoids > the condition that we get the warning for.
Applied, thanks
-- ~Vinod
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