The problem with ornamental, do-nothing gotos is that they lead to
"forgot to set the error code" bugs. We should be returning -EINVAL
here but we don't. It leads to an uninitalized variable in
counter_show():
drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:603 counter_show()
error: uninitialized symbol 'status'.
Fixes: 1c8fce27e275 ('ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
index 0243d37..4b3a9e2 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
@@ -555,23 +555,22 @@ static void acpi_global_event_handler(u32 event_type, acpi_handle device,
static int get_status(u32 index, acpi_event_status *status,
acpi_handle *handle)
{
- int result = 0;
+ int result;
if (index >= num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS)
- goto end;
+ return -EINVAL;
if (index < num_gpes) {
result = acpi_get_gpe_device(index, handle);
if (result) {
ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, AE_NOT_FOUND,
"Invalid GPE 0x%x", index));
- goto end;
+ return result;
}
result = acpi_get_gpe_status(*handle, index, status);
} else if (index < (num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS))
result = acpi_get_event_status(index - num_gpes, status);
-end:
return result;
}
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