Clang warns: drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c:309:9: error: variable 'ret' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized] 309 | return ret; | ^~~ drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c:285:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning 285 | int ret, i; | ^ | = 0 drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c:359:9: error: variable 'ret' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized] 359 | return ret; | ^~~ drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c:335:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning 335 | int ret, i; | ^ | = 0 2 errors generated. Set ret to the return value of clk_hw_register_fixed_rate() using the PTR_ERR() macro, which ensures ret is not used uninitialized, clearing up the warning. Fixes: 6f3b15586eef ("clk: ralink: add clock and reset driver for MTMIPS SoCs") Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1879 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c b/drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c index 9322c6210a33..1e7991439527 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c +++ b/drivers/clk/ralink/clk-mtmips.c @@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ static int mtmips_register_fixed_clocks(struct clk_hw_onecell_data *clk_data, sclk->parent, 0, sclk->rate); if (IS_ERR(sclk->hw)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(sclk->hw); pr_err("Couldn't register fixed clock %d\n", idx); goto err_clk_unreg; } @@ -342,6 +343,7 @@ static int mtmips_register_factor_clocks(struct clk_hw_onecell_data *clk_data, sclk->parent, sclk->flags, sclk->mult, sclk->div); if (IS_ERR(sclk->hw)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(sclk->hw); pr_err("Couldn't register factor clock %d\n", idx); goto err_clk_unreg; } --- base-commit: fd99ac5055d4705e91c73d1adba18bc71c8511a8 change-id: 20230622-mips-ralink-clk-wuninitialized-150bd0336187 Best regards, -- Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>