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Message-Id: <20220713073858.42015-1-mailmesebin00@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:08:58 +0530
From:   Sebin Sebastian <mailmesebin00@...il.com>
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Cc:     Sebin Sebastian <mailmesebin00@...il.com>,
        Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        Linu Cherian <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>,
        Jerin Jacob <jerinj@...vell.com>,
        hariprasad <hkelam@...vell.com>,
        Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] octeontx2-af: returning uninitialized variable

Fix coverity error 'use of uninitialized variable'. err is uninitialized
and is returned which can lead to unintended results. err has been replaced
with -einval.
Coverity issue: 1518921 (uninitialized scalar variable)

Signed-off-by: Sebin Sebastian <mailmesebin00@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c
index ed8b9afbf731..563bf1497fd0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc_hash.c
@@ -1961,7 +1961,7 @@ int rvu_npc_exact_init(struct rvu *rvu)
 			dev_err(rvu->dev,
 				"%s: failed to set drop info for cgx=%d, lmac=%d, chan=%llx\n",
 				__func__, cgx_id, lmac_id, chan_val);
-			return err;
+			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
 		err = npc_install_mcam_drop_rule(rvu, *drop_mcam_idx,
-- 
2.34.1