linux-kernel - Re: Potential uninitialized variables in power: supply: rt5033

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Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:12:38 +0200
From:   Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
To:     Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003@....edu>, Beomho Seo <beomho.seo@...sung.com>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zhiyun Qian <zhiyunq@...ucr.edu>,
        Chengyu Song <csong@...ucr.edu>
Subject: Re: Potential uninitialized variables in power: supply:
 rt5033_battery:

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:21:44PM -0700, Yizhuo Zhai wrote:
> drivers/power/supply/rt5033_battery.c:
> 
> In function rt5033_battery_get_present(), variable "val" could be
> uninitialized if regmap_read() returns -EINVAL. However, "val" is
> used to decide the return value, which is potentially unsafe.
> 
> Also, we cannot simply return -EINVAL in rt5033_battery_get_present()
> because it's not an acceptable return value.
> 
> Thanks for your time to check this case.

Should be fine to just return false when regmap_read() fails.
Will you prepare a patch for that?

Thanks,

-- Sebastian

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