Smatch complains that 'str' can be used without being initialized: drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel_plr_tpmi.c:178 plr_print_bits() error: uninitialized symbol 'str'. In this loop, we iterate over all the set bits and print the name of the bit. The intention is that if there is a bit which is between 0-31 we look for the name in the first array plr_coarse_reasons[] which has 10 elements. If the bit is in the 32-63 range we look for it in the plr_fine_reasons[] array which has 30 elements. If the bit is in the invalid ranges, 10-31 or 62-63, then we should print "UNKNOWN(%d)". The problem is that 'str' needs to be initialized at the start of each iteration, otherwise if we can't find the string then instead of printing "UNKNOWN(%d)", we will re-print whatever the previous bit was. Fixes: 9e9397a41b7b ("platform/x86/intel/tpmi/plr: Add support for the plr mailbox") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: initialize str at the start of each iteration drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel_plr_tpmi.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel_plr_tpmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel_plr_tpmi.c index c1aa52c23d25..69ace6a629bc 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel_plr_tpmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/intel_plr_tpmi.c @@ -162,10 +162,11 @@ static int plr_clear_cpu_status(struct tpmi_plr_die *plr_die, int cpu) static void plr_print_bits(struct seq_file *s, u64 val, int bits) { const unsigned long mask[] = { BITMAP_FROM_U64(val) }; - const char *str; int bit, index; for_each_set_bit(bit, mask, bits) { + const char *str = NULL; + if (bit < PLR_COARSE_REASON_BITS) { if (bit < ARRAY_SIZE(plr_coarse_reasons)) str = plr_coarse_reasons[bit]; -- 2.43.0