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* [PATCH] Variable "val" in function rt274_i2c_probe() could be uninitialized
@ 2019-01-03 21:59 Yizhuo
  2019-01-04 13:49 ` Mark Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Yizhuo @ 2019-01-03 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: csong, zhiyunq, Yizhuo, Bard Liao, Oder Chiou, Liam Girdwood,
	Mark Brown, Jaroslav Kysela, Takashi Iwai, alsa-devel,
	linux-kernel

Inside function rt274_i2c_probe(), if regmap_read() function
returns -EINVAL, then local variable "val" leaves uninitialized
but used in if statement. This is potentially unsafe.

Signed-off-by: Yizhuo <yzhai003@ucr.edu>
---
 sound/soc/codecs/rt274.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/rt274.c b/sound/soc/codecs/rt274.c
index 8f92e5c4dd9d..cd048df76232 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/rt274.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/rt274.c
@@ -1128,8 +1128,11 @@ static int rt274_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	regmap_read(rt274->regmap,
+	ret = regmap_read(rt274->regmap,
 		RT274_GET_PARAM(AC_NODE_ROOT, AC_PAR_VENDOR_ID), &val);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	if (val != RT274_VENDOR_ID) {
 		dev_err(&i2c->dev,
 			"Device with ID register %#x is not rt274\n", val);
-- 
2.17.1


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* Re: [PATCH] Variable "val" in function rt274_i2c_probe() could be uninitialized
  2019-01-03 21:59 [PATCH] Variable "val" in function rt274_i2c_probe() could be uninitialized Yizhuo
@ 2019-01-04 13:49 ` Mark Brown
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2019-01-04 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yizhuo
  Cc: csong, zhiyunq, Bard Liao, Oder Chiou, Liam Girdwood,
	Jaroslav Kysela, Takashi Iwai, alsa-devel, linux-kernel

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On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 01:59:12PM -0800, Yizhuo wrote:
> Inside function rt274_i2c_probe(), if regmap_read() function
> returns -EINVAL, then local variable "val" leaves uninitialized
> but used in if statement. This is potentially unsafe.

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