On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:17:27AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 10:54 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> > > > > commit 5bc9ad774c063f6b41965e7314f2c26aa5e465a0 upstream. > > > > Gcc 4.6.2 complains that: > > > > drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: In function `lp5521_load_program': > > drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c:214:21: warning: `mode' may be used > > uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] > > drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: In function `lp5521_probe': > > drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c:788:5: warning: `buf' may be used > > uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] > > drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c:740:6: warning: `ret' may be used > > uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] > > > > These are real problems if lp5521_read() returns an error. When that > > happens we should handle it, instead of ignoring it or doing a bitwise > > OR with all the other error codes and continuing. > [...] > > --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c > > +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c > [...] > > @@ -785,7 +789,7 @@ static int __devinit lp5521_probe(struct > > * LP5521_REG_ENABLE register will not have any effect - strange! > > */ > > ret = lp5521_read(client, LP5521_REG_R_CURRENT, &buf); > > - if (buf != LP5521_REG_R_CURR_DEFAULT) { > > + if (ret || buf != LP5521_REG_R_CURR_DEFAULT) { > > dev_err(&client->dev, "error in resetting chip\n"); > > goto fail2; > > } > > lp5521_probe() is going to return 0 if ret == 0 && > buf != LP5521_REG_R_CURR_DEFAULT here. It needs to set an error code.
Thanks Ben, I'll send a fix for this. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/