Smatch complains that these variables could be uninitialized. The first one in snd_soc_dai_link_event() is probably a false positive, because probably we know the lists are not empty. I would normally ignore the warning, but GCC complains here as well so I just silenced the warning. The "ret" in snd_soc_dapm_new_dai() does need to be initialized or it leads to a bogus dereference in the caller. Fixes: 3bbf5d34fd4a ("ASoC: dapm: Move error handling to snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c index 9f4edcd19e02..0dcdcc23dcfd 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c @@ -3623,7 +3623,7 @@ static int snd_soc_dai_link_event(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w, struct snd_pcm_hw_params *params = NULL; struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = NULL; unsigned int fmt; - int ret; + int ret = 0; config = rtd->dai_link->params + rtd->params_select; @@ -3938,8 +3938,10 @@ snd_soc_dapm_new_dai(struct snd_soc_card *card, struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd, dev_dbg(card->dev, "ASoC: adding %s widget\n", link_name); w = snd_soc_dapm_new_control_unlocked(&card->dapm, &template); - if (IS_ERR(w)) + if (IS_ERR(w)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(w); goto outfree_kcontrol_news; + } w->priv = rtd;