Re: [PATCH][next] iio: temperature: max31856: fix uninitialized error return

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:23:51 +0100
Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently if mask is neither CHAN_INFO_RAW or CHAN_INFO_SCALE then
> then an uninitialized error return 'ret' is returned. Fix this by
> adding a default case that ensures -EINVAL is returned for this
> specific case.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Colin,

Dan / smatch caught this one as well, but as you sent a patch
yours gets applied.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing
for the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/temperature/max31856.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/temperature/max31856.c b/drivers/iio/temperature/max31856.c
> index 6b67d6b95cf9..f184ba5601d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/temperature/max31856.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/temperature/max31856.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ static int max31856_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
>  			return IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO;
>  		}
>  		break;
> +	default:
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		break;
>  	}
>  
>  	return ret;