From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 214b3369ab9b0a6f28d6c970220c209417edbc65 upstream. Clang static analysis reports this problem mtk_eth_soc.c:394:7: warning: Branch condition evaluates to a garbage value if (err) ^~~ err is not initialized and only conditionally set. So intitialize err. Fixes: 7e538372694b ("net: ethernet: mediatek: Re-add support SGMII") Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static void mtk_mac_config(struct phylin phylink_config); struct mtk_eth *eth = mac->hw; u32 mcr_cur, mcr_new, sid, i; - int val, ge_mode, err; + int val, ge_mode, err = 0; /* MT76x8 has no hardware settings between for the MAC */ if (!MTK_HAS_CAPS(eth->soc->caps, MTK_SOC_MT7628) &&