On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 07:46:44PM +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Currently there are error return paths in ffsReadFile that > exit via lable err_out that return and uninitialized error > return in variable ret. Fix this by initializing ret to zero. > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable") > Fixes: c48c9f7ff32b ("staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging") > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Clang also warns about this: drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:885:6: warning: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (p_fs->dev_ejected) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:892:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here return ret; ^~~ drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:885:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true if (p_fs->dev_ejected) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c:776:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning int ret; ^ = 0 1 warning generated. Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel