Clang warns: drivers/pci/syscall.c:25:6: warning: variable 'dev' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/pci/syscall.c:81:14: note: uninitialized use occurs here pci_dev_put(dev); ^~~ drivers/pci/syscall.c:25:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/pci/syscall.c:18:21: note: initialize the variable 'dev' to silence this warning struct pci_dev *dev; ^ = NULL 1 warning generated. pci_dev_put accounts for a NULL pointer so initialize dev to NULL before the capability check so that there is no use of uninitialized memory. Fixes: 61a6199787d9 ("PCI: Return ~0 data on pciconfig_read() CAP_SYS_ADMIN failure") Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/syscall.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/syscall.c b/drivers/pci/syscall.c index 525f16caed1d..61a6fe3cde21 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/syscall.c +++ b/drivers/pci/syscall.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pciconfig_read, unsigned long, bus, unsigned long, dfn, int err, cfg_ret; err = -EPERM; + dev = NULL; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) goto error; base-commit: 21d8e94253eb09f7c94c4db00dc714efc75b8701 -- 2.33.0.rc0