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SubjectRe: [PATCH] remoteproc: silence an uninitialized variable warning
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On 4/4/2019 3:06 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 02:47:39PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>> On 4/4/2019 2:12 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>> Smatch complains that "ret" might be uninitialized. I can see why it
>>> generates the warning, but I don't know if it's actually possible.
>>> Anyway initializing "ret" here is harmless.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
>>> index 1c488024c698..fc58d660692f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
>>> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static int __qcom_mdt_load(struct device *dev, const struct firmware *fw,
>>> if (reloc_base)
>>> *reloc_base = mem_reloc;
>>> -
>>> + ret = 0;
>>
>> You are overriding the value here, better keep it at the start.
> I like how I wrote it. It makes it clear that this is the success path.


But think about a case when this request_firmware_into_buf fails or the
snippet above that can set the ret with error value

right.. is not that possible?..and ret = 0 stops propagating the error
properly.

Thanks
Mukesh

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>

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