From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 824ac4a5edd3f7494ab1996826c4f47f8ef0f63d ] The pointer isn't initialized by callers, but I have encountered cases where it's still printed; initialize it in all possible cases in setup_one_line(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703172235.ad863568b55f.Iaa1eba4db8265d7715ba71d5f6bb8c7ff63d27e9@changeid Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/drivers/line.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/line.c b/arch/um/drivers/line.c index 37e96ba0f5fb1..d2beb4a497a2a 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/line.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/line.c @@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init, parse_chan_pair(NULL, line, n, opts, error_out); err = 0; } + *error_out = "configured as 'none'"; } else { char *new = kstrdup(init, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) { @@ -401,6 +402,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init, } } if (err) { + *error_out = "failed to parse channel pair"; line->init_str = NULL; line->valid = 0; kfree(new); -- 2.43.0