Re: [PATCH][next] net: phy: dp83869: fix return of uninitialized variable ret

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Nov 18 2019 - 18:29:21 EST


On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:48:35AM +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the case where the call to phy_interface_is_rgmii returns zero
> the variable ret is left uninitialized and this is returned at
> the end of the function dp83869_configure_rgmii. Fix this by
> returning 0 instead of the uninitialized value in ret.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: 01db923e8377 ("net: phy: dp83869: Add TI dp83869 phy")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Dan: phy_modify_mmd() could fail. You check the return value for
phy_read and phy_write, so it would be consistent to also check

Andrew