Re: [PATCH] ASoC: cs35l32: avoid uninitialized variable access

[Austin, Brian]

> On Mar 6, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> gcc warns about the possibilty of accessing a property read from
> devicetree in cs35l32_i2c_probe() when it has not been initialized
> because CONFIG_OF is disabled:
> 
> sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c: In function 'cs35l32_i2c_probe':
> sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c:278:2: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> The code is actually correct because it checks the dev->of_node
> variable first and we know this is NULL here when CONFIG_OF
> is disabled, but Russell King noticed that it's broken when
> we probe the device using DT, and the properties are absent.
> 
> The code already has some checking for incorrect values, and
> I keep that checking unchanged here, but add an additional
> check for an error returned by the property accessor functions
> that now gets handled the same way as incorrect data in the
> properties.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c b/sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c
> index 44c30fe3e315..c490dc74121b 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/cs35l32.c
> @@ -274,21 +274,24 @@ static int cs35l32_handle_of_data(struct i2c_client *i2c_client,
> 	if (of_property_read_u32(np, "cirrus,sdout-share", &val) >= 0)
> 		pdata->sdout_share = val;
> 
> -	of_property_read_u32(np, "cirrus,boost-manager", &val);
> +	if (of_property_read_u32(np, "cirrus,boost-manager", &val))
> +		val = -1u;
> +
> 	switch (val) {
> 	case CS35L32_BOOST_MGR_AUTO:
> 	case CS35L32_BOOST_MGR_AUTO_AUDIO:
> 	case CS35L32_BOOST_MGR_BYPASS:
> 	case CS35L32_BOOST_MGR_FIXED:
> -		pdata->boost_mng = val;
With this one line removed wonât that keep from assigning the value for later?
The other ones donât seem to do this but just check for bad value.
> 		break;
> +	case -1u:
> 	default:
> 		dev_err(&i2c_client->dev,
> 			"Wrong cirrus,boost-manager DT value %d\n", val);
> 		pdata->boost_mng = CS35L32_BOOST_MGR_BYPASS;
> 	}
> 
Regards,
Brian