The following warning is given by the Smatch static checker: drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c:1937 hp_wmi_sensors_init() error: uninitialized symbol 'pevents'. If there are no instances of the HPBIOS_PlatformEvents WMI object available, init_platform_events() never initializes this pointer, which may then be passed to hp_wmi_debugfs_init() uninitialized. The impact should be limited because hp_wmi_debugfs_init() uses this pointer only if the count of HPBIOS_PlatformEvents instances is _not_ zero, while conversely, it will be uninitialized only if the count of such instances _is_ zero. However, passing it uninitialized still constitutes a bug. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hwmon/f72c129b-8c57-406a-bf41-bd889b65ea0f@moroto.mountain/ Signed-off-by: James Seo <james@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c b/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c index 3a99cc5f44b2..17ae62f88bbf 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c @@ -1913,7 +1913,7 @@ static bool add_event_handler(struct hp_wmi_sensors *state) static int hp_wmi_sensors_init(struct hp_wmi_sensors *state) { struct hp_wmi_info *connected[HP_WMI_MAX_INSTANCES]; - struct hp_wmi_platform_events *pevents; + struct hp_wmi_platform_events *pevents = NULL; struct device *dev = &state->wdev->dev; struct hp_wmi_info *info; struct device *hwdev; base-commit: 55612007f16b5d7b1fb83a7b0f5bb686829db7c7 -- 2.39.2
