RE: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: fix an uninitialized use

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu Feb 06 2020 - 18:28:46 EST


> Fixed the uninitialized use of a signed integer variable ret in
> soc_probe_component when all its definitions are not executed. This
> caused -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern to initialize the variable to
> repeated 0xAA (i.e. a negative value) and triggered the following code
> unintentionally.

> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <caij2003@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Jian,
I don't quite follow; it looks like `ret` is assigned to multiple times in
`soc_probe_component`. Are one of the return values of one of the functions
that are called then assigned to `ret` undefined? What control flow path leaves
`ret` unitialized?