kalmia: avoid potential uninitialized variable use
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:54:18 +0000 (17:54 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:27:34 +0000 (16:27 -0400)
The kalmia_send_init_packet() returns zero or a negative return
code, but gcc has no way of knowing that there cannot be a
positive return code, so it determines that copying the ethernet
address at the end of kalmia_bind() will access uninitialized
data:

drivers/net/usb/kalmia.c: In function ‘kalmia_bind’:
arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:78:22: error: ‘*((void *)&ethernet_addr+4)’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
   *((short *)to + 2) = *((short *)from + 2);
                      ^
drivers/net/usb/kalmia.c:138:5: note: ‘*((void *)&ethernet_addr+4)’ was declared here

This warning is harmless, but for consistency, we should make
the check for the return code match what the driver does everywhere
else and just progate it, which then gets rid of the warning.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/usb/kalmia.c

index 5662babf05832e8641da4b6aaa7bce9da4fdbc9c..3e37724d30ae7efa2153f53fab3b21dc6cac5af7 100644 (file)
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ kalmia_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 
        status = kalmia_init_and_get_ethernet_addr(dev, ethernet_addr);
 
-       if (status < 0) {
+       if (status) {
                usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL);
                usb_driver_release_interface(driver_of(intf), intf);
                return status;