Clang warns (or errors with CONFIG_WERROR=y): drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c:357:6: error: variable 'ret' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] 357 | if (!ddata->config) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c:442:9: note: uninitialized use occurs here 442 | return ret; | ^~~ drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c:357:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false 357 | if (!ddata->config) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 358 | goto free_rproc; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c:348:9: note: initialize the variable 'ret' to silence this warning 348 | int ret, i; | ^ | = 0 1 error generated. Set ret to -ENODEV, which seems to be a standard return code when device_get_match_data() returns NULL. Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1944 Fixes: 5c77ebcd05ac ("remoteproc: st: Use device_get_match_data()") Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c index b0638f984842..cb163766c56d 100644 --- a/drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/st_remoteproc.c @@ -354,8 +354,10 @@ static int st_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) rproc->has_iommu = false; ddata = rproc->priv; ddata->config = (struct st_rproc_config *)device_get_match_data(dev); - if (!ddata->config) + if (!ddata->config) { + ret = -ENODEV; goto free_rproc; + } platform_set_drvdata(pdev, rproc); --- base-commit: 5c77ebcd05acf3789949c8a387df72381d949ca2 change-id: 20231012-st_remoteproc-fix-sometimes-uninit-7aff1bdb7349 Best regards, -- Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>