linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] regmap: fix return of unintialized value in variable ret

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Message-ID: <20200918131434.GG5703@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:14:34 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] regmap: fix return of unintialized value in
 variable ret

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:11:58PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> A recent commit removed the intialization of ret and now the !config
> error return path returns a bogus uninitialized value in ret. Fix
> this by explicitly setting ret to -EINVAL for this error exit path.

I already applied a patch for this.

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