Re: [PATCH][next] media: i2c: imx334: Fix a read of the uninitialized variable ret

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Feb 11 2021 - 05:46:04 EST


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:03:03PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 07:07:52PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Currently there is a dev_err error message that is printing the
> > error status in variable ret (that has not been set) instead of
> > the correct error status from imx334->reset_gpio. Fix this.
> >
> > Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> > Fixes: 9746b11715c3 ("media: i2c: Add imx334 camera sensor driver")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/media/i2c/imx334.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/imx334.c b/drivers/media/i2c/imx334.c
> > index 07e31bc2ef18..f8b1caf26c9b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/i2c/imx334.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/imx334.c
> > @@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ static int imx334_parse_hw_config(struct imx334 *imx334)
> > imx334->reset_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(imx334->dev, "reset",
> > GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
> > if (IS_ERR(imx334->reset_gpio)) {
> > - dev_err(imx334->dev, "failed to get reset gpio %d", ret);
> > + dev_err(imx334->dev, "failed to get reset gpio %ld",
> > + IS_ERR_VALUE(imx334->reset_gpio));

IS_ERR_VALUE() isn't right. It would always print 1 here. It should
just be PTR_ERR().

IS_ERR_VALUE() is like IS_ERR() but for when you're storing memory
addresses in an unsigned long variable. get_unmapped_area(), for
example, returns unsigned longs.

regards,
dan carpenter