Re: [PATCH] clk: stm32f4: avoid uninitialized variable access

[Gabriel Fernandez]

On 01/11/2017 02:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The failure path in the newly added function tries to free an
> uninitialized pointer:
>
> drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c: In function 'stm32f4_rcc_init':
> drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c:1106:4: error: 'gate' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> I'm adding an initialization to NULL here to make the kfree()
> succeed, and I'm also rearranging the cleanup so that the
> same kfree() is used for any error path, making the function
> slightly more robust against newly introduced bugs in the
> error handling.
>
> Fixes: daf2d117cbca ("clk: stm32f4: Add lcd-tft clock")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c | 12 +++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Gabriel Fernandez <gabriel.fernandez@xxxxxx>