Re: [PATCH] [v2] staging: iio: ad5933: avoid uninitialized variable in error case

From: Lars-Peter Clausen
Date: Tue Oct 25 2016 - 13:01:15 EST


On 10/25/2016 06:57 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 24/10/16 16:22, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The ad5933_i2c_read function returns an error code to indicate
>> whether it could read data or not. However ad5933_work() ignores
>> this return code and just accesses the data unconditionally,
>> which gets detected by gcc as a possible bug:
>>
>> drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c: In function 'ad5933_work':
>> drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c:649:16: warning: 'status' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>>
>> This adds minimal error handling so we only evaluate the
>> data if it was correctly read.
>>
>> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8110281/
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Lars?
>

Looks good, thanks.

Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>