This is harmless but my static checker complains that "tmp" is uninitialized if lp3972_i2c_read() fails. I have moved the line of code below the error handling to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/lp3972.c b/drivers/regulator/lp3972.c index 3a7e96e..ff0c275 100644 --- a/drivers/regulator/lp3972.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/lp3972.c @@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ static int lp3972_set_bits(struct lp3972 *lp3972, u8 reg, u16 mask, u16 val) mutex_lock(&lp3972->io_lock); ret = lp3972_i2c_read(lp3972->i2c, reg, 1, &tmp); - tmp = (tmp & ~mask) | val; if (ret == 0) { + tmp = (tmp & ~mask) | val; ret = lp3972_i2c_write(lp3972->i2c, reg, 1, &tmp); dev_dbg(lp3972->dev, "reg write 0x%02x -> 0x%02x\n", (int)reg, (unsigned)val & 0xff); -- 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