[PATCH 1/2] staging: wfx: fix use of uninitialized pointer

From: Jerome Pouiller
Date: Mon Oct 19 2020 - 12:06:30 EST


From: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@xxxxxxxxxx>

With -Wuninitialized, the compiler complains:

drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c:34:19: warning: variable 'band' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
if (rate->idx >= band->n_bitrates) {
^~~~

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 868fd970e187 ("staging: wfx: improve robustness of wfx_get_hw_rate()")
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c
index 41f6a604a697..36b36ef39d05 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/data_tx.c
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ static int wfx_get_hw_rate(struct wfx_dev *wdev,
}
return rate->idx + 14;
}
- if (rate->idx >= band->n_bitrates) {
- WARN(1, "wrong rate->idx value: %d", rate->idx);
- return -1;
- }
// WFx only support 2GHz, else band information should be retrieved
// from ieee80211_tx_info
band = wdev->hw->wiphy->bands[NL80211_BAND_2GHZ];
+ if (rate->idx >= band->n_bitrates) {
+ WARN(1, "wrong rate->idx value: %d", rate->idx);
+ return -1;
+ }
return band->bitrates[rate->idx].hw_value;
}

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2.28.0