From nobody Sun Feb 8 05:11:28 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7293C001DE for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234015AbjHKNQL (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:16:11 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56372 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234382AbjHKNQI (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:16:08 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 383AC26B6; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC1436576A; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D0F1C433C8; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:16:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1691759767; bh=nukkFSLL4P8Jr+p/dmzT3QsEQ0EGjj5/yMaNaTXyids=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=Kk9odl1YytqoGOgtcDfjLlBMzw5GoL/OKM8j6hffFD3mw5FMyFVc3K9ILEbj2+081 pudtq1NP5/tZa9Wexobiem93LieQudBbg0eQ0ZtMTvKFqc/JUIXG6/7qQjCcf4XzNO 5HfPJF5svI+wL9XINgVDjKLj+ckSslUBaPJoyy+uVJLR8O3KII72czlYyb76JV7EOm AFgBt9FpIcTgeCBFdobX/DABISbmdUwwujnwPNSjjI9WjKlkrk+JK0VZEm5PCb11Hi EtP7oD+qUTFnYSRNGYNqoxIOGxzf4R8xlVmVvhkwsnprLvdBRmpN7sd1mlIcRaQ5Qq EkitZ1qtawnaw== From: Arnd Bergmann To: Lee Jones , Daniel Thompson , Jingoo Han , Helge Deller , Artur Weber Cc: Arnd Bergmann , =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= , Benjamin Mugnier , Krzysztof Kozlowski , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] backlight: lp855x: fix unintialized function return Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:15:53 +0200 Message-Id: <20230811131600.2380519-1-arnd@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Arnd Bergmann The function now returns an error code in some cases, but fails to initiali= ze it in others: drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c:252:11: error: variable 'ret' is used u= ninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitia= lized] else if (lp->mode =3D=3D REGISTER_BASED) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c:256:9: note: uninitialized use occurs h= ere return ret; ^~~ drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c:252:7: note: remove the 'if' if its con= dition is always true else if (lp->mode =3D=3D REGISTER_BASED) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since this case should not actually happen, return the -EINVAL code. Fixes: 5145531be5fba ("backlight: lp855x: Catch errors when changing bright= ness") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann --- drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/= lp855x_bl.c index 61a7f45bfad84..ea4fa69e49a70 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ static int lp855x_bl_update_status(struct backlight_dev= ice *bl) else if (lp->mode =3D=3D REGISTER_BASED) ret =3D lp855x_write_byte(lp, lp->cfg->reg_brightness, (u8)brightness); + else + ret =3D -EINVAL; =20 return ret; } --=20 2.39.2