Hello Vijendar Mukunda, The patch 34a0094b9ff7: "ASoC: amd: add vangogh machine driver" from Oct 14, 2021, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: sound/soc/amd/vangogh/acp5x-mach.c:190 acp5x_cs35l41_hw_params() error: uninitialized symbol 'ret'. sound/soc/amd/vangogh/acp5x-mach.c 158 static int acp5x_cs35l41_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, 159 struct snd_pcm_hw_params *params) 160 { 161 struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd = substream->private_data; 162 struct snd_soc_card *card = rtd->card; 163 struct snd_soc_dai *codec_dai; 164 int ret, i; 165 unsigned int num_codecs = rtd->num_codecs; 166 unsigned int bclk_val; 167 168 for (i = 0; i < num_codecs; i++) { 169 codec_dai = asoc_rtd_to_codec(rtd, i); 170 if ((strcmp(codec_dai->name, "spi-VLV1776:00") == 0) || 171 (strcmp(codec_dai->name, "spi-VLV1776:01") == 0)) { How positive are we that we're always going to find one of these codecs? Smatch is worried we might not find them. 172 switch (params_rate(params)) { 173 case 48000: 174 bclk_val = 1536000; 175 break; 176 default: 177 dev_err(card->dev, "Invalid Samplerate:0x%x\n", 178 params_rate(params)); 179 return -EINVAL; 180 } 181 ret = snd_soc_component_set_sysclk(codec_dai->component, 182 0, 0, bclk_val, SND_SOC_CLOCK_IN); 183 if (ret < 0) { 184 dev_err(card->dev, "failed to set sysclk for CS35l41 dai\n"); 185 return ret; 186 } 187 } 188 } 189 --> 190 return ret; ^^^^^^^^^^ Also it's a bit more readable to "return 0;" if we know this is a success path. 191 } regards, dan carpenter