[PATCHv2] staging: comedi: fix potentially uninitialised variable

From: Michal Nazarewicz
Date: Mon Nov 11 2013 - 06:32:09 EST


If none of the if conditions take a true path, the ret variable will
never be assigned a value.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

On Sun, Nov 10 2013, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Don't use a From: unless you are sending it on behalf of another sender.
>
> You need a Signed-off-by line and it has to match your email address
> which you used to send the email.

Sorry about that, forgot about â-sâ.

> Otherwise, the patch is good an fixes an important bug.

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c
index 933b01a..0adf3cf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int vmk80xx_do_insn_bits(struct comedi_device *dev,
unsigned char *rx_buf = devpriv->usb_rx_buf;
unsigned char *tx_buf = devpriv->usb_tx_buf;
int reg, cmd;
- int ret;
+ int ret = 0;

if (devpriv->model == VMK8061_MODEL) {
reg = VMK8061_DO_REG;
--
1.8.3.2
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