Re: [PATCH] [v2] ASoC: wm97xx: fix uninitialized regmap pointer problem

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Fri Nov 02 2018 - 12:02:42 EST


On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:18:21PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> gcc notices that without either the ac97 bus or the pdata, we never
> initialize the regmap pointer, which leads to an uninitialized variable
> access:
>
> sound/soc/codecs/wm9712.c: In function 'wm9712_soc_probe':
> sound/soc/codecs/wm9712.c:666:2: error: 'regmap' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> Since that configuration is invalid, it's better to return an error
> here. I tried to avoid adding complexity to the conditions, and turned
> the #ifdef into a regular if(IS_ENABLED()) check for readability.
> This in turn requires moving some header file declarations out of
> an #ifdef.
>
> The same code is used in three drivers, all of which I'm changing
> the same way.
>
> Fixes: 2ed1a8e0ce8d ("ASoC: wm9712: add ac97 new bus support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Charles