linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Fix uninintialized error return

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2015 07:22:41 +0100
From:	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
CC:	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Jie Yang <yang.jie@...el.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Fix uninintialized error return

On 29/06/15 18:10, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:10:22 +0100,
> Colin King wrote:
>>
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> Static analysis with cppcheck found the following error:
>>   [sound/core/init.c:118]: (error) Uninitialized variable: err
>>
>> ..this was introduced by commit 2471b6c80a70e80de69f5ff4c37187c3912e5874
>> ("ALSA: info: Register proc entries recursively, too") where the call
>> to snd_info_card_register was removed and no longer setting the error
>> return in err.  When snd_info_create_card_entry fails to allocate a
>> an entry, the error path exits with garbage in err.  Fix is to return
>> -ENOMEM if entry fails to be allocated.
>>
>> Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
>> Date:   Mon May 18 09:20:24 2015 +0200
> 
> These two lines seem superfluous.  I removed them and applied the
> patch now.  Thanks.
> 
Thanks, somehow I missed that cut-n-paste mistake.

> 
> Takashi
> 
>>
>> Fixes: 2471b6c80a ("ALSA: info: Register proc entries recursively, too")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>  sound/core/init.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/sound/core/init.c b/sound/core/init.c
>> index 3e0ceba..20f37fb 100644
>> --- a/sound/core/init.c
>> +++ b/sound/core/init.c
>> @@ -109,13 +109,12 @@ static void snd_card_id_read(struct snd_info_entry *entry,
>>  
>>  static int init_info_for_card(struct snd_card *card)
>>  {
>> -	int err;
>>  	struct snd_info_entry *entry;
>>  
>>  	entry = snd_info_create_card_entry(card, "id", card->proc_root);
>>  	if (!entry) {
>>  		dev_dbg(card->dev, "unable to create card entry\n");
>> -		return err;
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>>  	}
>>  	entry->c.text.read = snd_card_id_read;
>>  	card->proc_id = entry;
>> -- 
>> 2.1.4
>>

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