netdev - Re: [PATCH net] qlcnic: fix a return in qlcnic_dcb_get

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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     Shahed.Shaikh@...ium.com, sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com,
        manish.chopra@...ium.com, Dept-GELinuxNICDev@...ium.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] qlcnic: fix a return in qlcnic_dcb_get_capability()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 23:11:11 +0300

> These functions are supposed to return one on failure and zero on
> success.  Returning a zero here could cause uninitialized variable
> bugs in several of the callers.  For example:
> 
>     drivers/scsi/cxgbi/cxgb4i/cxgb4i.c:1660 get_iscsi_dcb_priority()
>     error: uninitialized symbol 'caps'.
> 
> Fixes: 48365e485275 ("qlcnic: dcb: Add support for CEE Netlink interface.")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.