Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20230113 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: Wed Jan 11 08:35:02 2023 +0000 493323416fed ("drivers/net/phy: add helpers to get/set PLCA configuration") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1530573: (UNINIT) drivers/net/phy/phy-c45.c:1036 in genphy_c45_plca_set_cfg() 1030 return ret; 1031 1032 val = ret; 1033 } 1034 1035 if (plca_cfg->node_cnt >= 0) vvv CID 1530573: (UNINIT) vvv Using uninitialized value "val". 1036 val = (val & ~MDIO_OATC14_PLCA_NCNT) | 1037 (plca_cfg->node_cnt << 8); 1038 1039 if (plca_cfg->node_id >= 0) 1040 val = (val & ~MDIO_OATC14_PLCA_ID) | 1041 (plca_cfg->node_id); drivers/net/phy/phy-c45.c:1076 in genphy_c45_plca_set_cfg() 1070 return ret; 1071 1072 val = ret; 1073 } 1074 1075 if (plca_cfg->burst_cnt >= 0) vvv CID 1530573: (UNINIT) vvv Using uninitialized value "val". 1076 val = (val & ~MDIO_OATC14_PLCA_MAXBC) | 1077 (plca_cfg->burst_cnt << 8); 1078 1079 if (plca_cfg->burst_tmr >= 0) 1080 val = (val & ~MDIO_OATC14_PLCA_BTMR) | 1081 (plca_cfg->burst_tmr); If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1530573 ("UNINIT") Fixes: 493323416fed ("drivers/net/phy: add helpers to get/set PLCA configuration") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot