linux-kernel - [patch] thinkpad_acpi: silence an unintialized variable warning

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:46:34 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>
Cc:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] thinkpad_acpi: silence an unintialized variable warning

If fan_get_status() fails then "s" isn't initialized.  I've tweaked the
error handling a bit to silence this warning.

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

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
index e305ab5..9255ff3 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -7972,10 +7972,12 @@ static int fan_get_status_safe(u8 *status)
 		fan_update_desired_level(s);
 	mutex_unlock(&fan_mutex);
 
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
 	if (status)
 		*status = s;
 
-	return rc;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int fan_get_speed(unsigned int *speed)