linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 047/305] ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get

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Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 047/305] ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get_status()

3.16.37-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

commit f18ebc211e259d4f591e39e74b2aa2de226c9a1d upstream.

The problem with ornamental, do-nothing gotos is that they lead to
"forgot to set the error code" bugs.  We should be returning -EINVAL
here but we don't.  It leads to an uninitalized variable in
counter_show():

    drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:603 counter_show()
    error: uninitialized symbol 'status'.

Fixes: 1c8fce27e275 (ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c)
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
@@ -492,23 +492,22 @@ static void acpi_global_event_handler(u3
 static int get_status(u32 index, acpi_event_status *status,
 		      acpi_handle *handle)
 {
-	int result = 0;
+	int result;
 
 	if (index >= num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS)
-		goto end;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (index < num_gpes) {
 		result = acpi_get_gpe_device(index, handle);
 		if (result) {
 			ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, AE_NOT_FOUND,
 					"Invalid GPE 0x%x", index));
-			goto end;
+			return result;
 		}
 		result = acpi_get_gpe_status(*handle, index, status);
 	} else if (index < (num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS))
 		result = acpi_get_event_status(index - num_gpes, status);
 
-end:
 	return result;
 }