Re: [PATCH][next] drm/amdgpu: fix return of an uninitialized value in variable ret

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:08:42AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In the case where is_enable is false and lo_base_addr is non-zero the
> variable ret has not been initialized and is being checked for non-zero
> and potentially garbage is being returned. Fix this by not returning
> ret but instead returning -EINVAL on the zero lo_base_addr case.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: a6ac0b44bab9 ("drm/amdgpu: add df perfmon regs and funcs for xgmi")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

This fixes a clang warning complaining about the same thing.

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c
> index a5c3558869fb..8c09bf994acd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c
> @@ -398,10 +398,7 @@ static int df_v3_6_start_xgmi_link_cntr(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>  				NULL);
>  
>  		if (lo_base_addr == 0)
> -			ret = -EINVAL;
> -
> -		if (ret)
> -			return ret;
> +			return -EINVAL;
>  
>  		lo_val = RREG32_PCIE(lo_base_addr);
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>