Re: [PATCH][net-next] qtnfmac: fix uninitialized return code in ret

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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 02:25:30PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The return value ret is unitialized and garbage is being returned
> for the three different error conditions when setting up the PCIe
> BARs. Fix this by initializing ret to  -ENOMEM to indicate that
> the BARs failed to be setup correctly.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1437563 ("Unitialized scalar variable")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c
> index f93b27f3a236..7fc4f0d6a9ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/pearl/pcie.c
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static void qtnf_pcie_free_shm_ipc(struct qtnf_pcie_bus_priv *priv)
>  
>  static int qtnf_pcie_init_memory(struct qtnf_pcie_bus_priv *priv)
>  {
> -	int ret;
> +	int ret = -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	priv->sysctl_bar = qtnf_map_bar(priv, QTN_SYSCTL_BAR);
>  	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(priv->sysctl_bar)) {

Not related to your patch but qtnf_map_bar() should be changed not to
return NULL.  When functions return both NULL and error pointers the
NULL is supposed to be a special type of success return.  Here it is
just a fail return where we forgot to set the error code to
ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).

regards,
dan carpenter

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