My static checker complains that "ret" could be zero here. (Presumably that means the hardware is badly busted). But the result would be that the caller assumes *resp_len is initialized when it's not and it leads to a warning. Let's just silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c index 8b3be8b..512c5b6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c @@ -1232,6 +1232,8 @@ static int do_cmd(struct i2c_client *client, int len, unsigned char *msg, break; } + if (ret == 0) + ret = -EINVAL; if (ret > 0) { /* Validate that the response is correct. */ if (ret < 3 || -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html