linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: fix uninitialized variable ret

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Date:   Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:31:49 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: fix uninitialized variable ret

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:46:44PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Currently there are error return paths in ffsReadFile that
> exit via lable err_out that return and uninitialized error
> return in variable ret. Fix this by initializing ret to zero.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: c48c9f7ff32b ("staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Clang also warns about this:

drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:885:6: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
        if (p_fs->dev_ejected)
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:892:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here
        return ret;
               ^~~
drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:885:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
        if (p_fs->dev_ejected)
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:776:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning
        int ret;
               ^
                = 0
1 warning generated.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>