Smatch Warns: drivers/iio/accel/mma9551_core.c:357 mma9551_read_status_word() error: uninitialized symbol 'v'. When (offset >= 1 << 12) is true mma9551_transfer() will return -EINVAL without 'v' being initialized, so check for the error and return. Fixes: d5b97f5c7dfc ("iio: accel: mma9551: split driver to expose mma955x api") Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is detected using static analysis with smatch, and could probably be detected by syzkaller fuzzing in future. --- drivers/iio/accel/mma9551_core.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/mma9551_core.c b/drivers/iio/accel/mma9551_core.c index 75eee7f7303a..b898f865fb87 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/accel/mma9551_core.c +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/mma9551_core.c @@ -357,9 +357,12 @@ int mma9551_read_status_word(struct i2c_client *client, u8 app_id, ret = mma9551_transfer(client, app_id, MMA9551_CMD_READ_STATUS, reg, NULL, 0, (u8 *)&v, 2); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + *val = be16_to_cpu(v); - return ret; + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(mma9551_read_status_word, IIO_MMA9551); -- 2.38.1