[jic23-iio:testing 149/150] drivers/iio/dac/ad5593r.c:87 ad5593r_gpio_read() error: uninitialized symbol 'val'.

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Sep 16 2022 - 02:56:40 EST


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git testing
head: 62a6e699f4669b2c51f408273756f93b21c9f1a1
commit: 53b6e3b2164c5807669fbf6b3df0e1494b4d03b8 [149/150] iio: dac: ad5593r: Fix i2c read protocol requirements
config: x86_64-randconfig-m001
compiler: gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-5) 11.3.0

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

smatch warnings:
drivers/iio/dac/ad5593r.c:87 ad5593r_gpio_read() error: uninitialized symbol 'val'.

vim +/val +87 drivers/iio/dac/ad5593r.c

56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 79 static int ad5593r_gpio_read(struct ad5592r_state *st, u8 *value)
56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 80 {
56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 81 struct i2c_client *i2c = to_i2c_client(st->dev);
53b6e3b2164c580 Michael Hennerich 2022-09-13 82 u16 val;
53b6e3b2164c580 Michael Hennerich 2022-09-13 83 int ret;
56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 84
53b6e3b2164c580 Michael Hennerich 2022-09-13 85 ret = ad5593r_read_word(i2c, AD5593R_MODE_GPIO_READBACK, &val);
56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 86
56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 @87 *value = (u8) val;


In the original code the error checking prevented reading uninitialized
variables. It's not really a problem, because ad5593r_read_word() can't
actually fail but, you know? Technically the checker is correct.

56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 88
53b6e3b2164c580 Michael Hennerich 2022-09-13 89 return ret;
56ca9db862bf3d7 Paul Cercueil 2016-04-05 90 }