dvb_frontend_swzigzag(): uninitialized variable usage

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Mon Nov 06 2006 - 13:27:37 EST


The Coverity checker spotted the following in
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:

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...
static void dvb_frontend_swzigzag(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
{
fe_status_t s;
struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv = fe->frontend_priv;

/* if we've got no parameters, just keep idling */
if (fepriv->state & FESTATE_IDLE) {
fepriv->delay = 3*HZ;
fepriv->quality = 0;
return;
}

/* in SCAN mode, we just set the frontend when asked and leave it alone */
if (fepriv->tune_mode_flags & FE_TUNE_MODE_ONESHOT) {
if (fepriv->state & FESTATE_RETUNE) {
if (fe->ops.set_frontend)
fe->ops.set_frontend(fe, &fepriv->parameters);
fepriv->state = FESTATE_TUNED;
}
fepriv->delay = 3*HZ;
fepriv->quality = 0;
return;
}

/* get the frontend status */
if (fepriv->state & FESTATE_RETUNE) {
s = 0;
} else {
if (fe->ops.read_status)
fe->ops.read_status(fe, &s);
if (s != fepriv->status) {
dvb_frontend_add_event(fe, s);
fepriv->status = s;
}
}
...

<-- snip -->

Note that in the "if (s != fepriv->status)", "s" could be used
uninitialized.

cu
Adrian

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