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SubjectRe: [ 05/56] drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: fix lp5521_read() error handling
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.carpenter@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



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