Re: [PATCH] usb: usb5303: make use of uninitialized err variable

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jul 10 2014 - 03:38:10 EST


Hi Greg,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:45:25PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
>> The variable err is not initialized here, this patch uses it
>> to store an eventual error value from devm_clk_get().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c | 10 +++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

> This patch fails to apply to my tree :(

You've already applied
commit ec5734c41bee2ee7c938a8f34853d31cada7e67a
Author: Tushar Behera <tushar.b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 17 16:38:50 2014 +0530

usb: misc: usb3503: Update error code in print message

'err' is uninitialized, rather print the error code directly.

which fixes it slightly different.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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