Re: [PATCH] [v2] staging: iio: ad5933: avoid uninitialized variable in error case

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On 25/10/16 18:00, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 06:57 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 24/10/16 16:22, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The ad5933_i2c_read function returns an error code to indicate
>>> whether it could read data or not. However ad5933_work() ignores
>>> this return code and just accesses the data unconditionally,
>>> which gets detected by gcc as a possible bug:
>>>
>>> drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c: In function 'ad5933_work':
>>> drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c:649:16: warning: 'status' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>>>
>>> This adds minimal error handling so we only evaluate the
>>> data if it was correctly read.
>>>
>>> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8110281/
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> Lars?
>>
> 
> Looks good, thanks.
> 
> Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to the fixes-togreg branch of iio.git and marked for stable.

thanks,

Jonathan
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