linux-kernel - [patch] misc: mic: silence uninitialized variable warning

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:47:42 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Cc:	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] misc: mic: silence uninitialized variable warning

My static checker complains that we still use "mark" even when the
_scif_fence_mark() call fails so it can be uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_fence.c b/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_fence.c
index 7f2c96f..cac3bcc 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_fence.c
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 void scif_recv_mark(struct scif_dev *scifdev, struct scifmsg *msg)
 {
 	struct scif_endpt *ep = (struct scif_endpt *)msg->payload[0];
-	int mark, err;
+	int mark = 0;
+	int err;
 
 	err = _scif_fence_mark(ep, &mark);
 	if (err)