linux-kernel - [PATCH] coresight: potential uninitialized variable in probe()

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:58:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] coresight: potential uninitialized variable in probe()

The "drvdata->atclk" clock is optional, but if it gets set to an error
pointer then we're accidentally return an uninitialized variable instead
of success.

Fixes: 78e6427b4e7b ("coresight: funnel: Support static funnel")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c
index 5867fcb4503b..fa97cb9ab4f9 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ static int funnel_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
 	}
 
 	pm_runtime_put(dev);
+	ret = 0;
 
 out_disable_clk:
 	if (ret && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(drvdata->atclk))
-- 
2.20.1