linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: fix return of uninitialized value

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Date:	Sat, 1 Jun 2013 19:52:04 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: fix return of uninitialized value

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:54:02PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:

>  	struct regmap_debugfs_off_cache *c = NULL;
>  	loff_t p = 0;
> -	unsigned int i, ret;
> +	unsigned int i, ret = 0;

Two problems here.  One is that we shouldn't mix initialised and
non-initialised declarations on one line and the other is that just
squashing a value in isn't a great fix for this sort of thing - it's
just shutting the warning up but perhaps the compiler has actually
spotted some control flow error and there's more wrong than just a
missing initialisation.

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