Patch "staging: iio: ad5933: avoid uninitialized variable in error case" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: iio: ad5933: avoid uninitialized variable in error case

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     staging-iio-ad5933-avoid-uninitialized-variable-in-error-case.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 34eee70a7b82b09dbda4cb453e0e21d460dae226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:22:01 +0200
Subject: staging: iio: ad5933: avoid uninitialized variable in error case

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

commit 34eee70a7b82b09dbda4cb453e0e21d460dae226 upstream.

The ad5933_i2c_read function returns an error code to indicate
whether it could read data or not. However ad5933_work() ignores
this return code and just accesses the data unconditionally,
which gets detected by gcc as a possible bug:

drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c: In function 'ad5933_work':
drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c:649:16: warning: 'status' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

This adds minimal error handling so we only evaluate the
data if it was correctly read.

Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8110281/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c
@@ -647,6 +647,7 @@ static void ad5933_work(struct work_stru
 	__be16 buf[2];
 	int val[2];
 	unsigned char status;
+	int ret;
 
 	mutex_lock(&indio_dev->mlock);
 	if (st->state == AD5933_CTRL_INIT_START_FREQ) {
@@ -654,19 +655,22 @@ static void ad5933_work(struct work_stru
 		ad5933_cmd(st, AD5933_CTRL_START_SWEEP);
 		st->state = AD5933_CTRL_START_SWEEP;
 		schedule_delayed_work(&st->work, st->poll_time_jiffies);
-		mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->mlock);
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
-	ad5933_i2c_read(st->client, AD5933_REG_STATUS, 1, &status);
+	ret = ad5933_i2c_read(st->client, AD5933_REG_STATUS, 1, &status);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
 
 	if (status & AD5933_STAT_DATA_VALID) {
 		int scan_count = bitmap_weight(indio_dev->active_scan_mask,
 					       indio_dev->masklength);
-		ad5933_i2c_read(st->client,
+		ret = ad5933_i2c_read(st->client,
 				test_bit(1, indio_dev->active_scan_mask) ?
 				AD5933_REG_REAL_DATA : AD5933_REG_IMAG_DATA,
 				scan_count * 2, (u8 *)buf);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out;
 
 		if (scan_count == 2) {
 			val[0] = be16_to_cpu(buf[0]);
@@ -678,8 +682,7 @@ static void ad5933_work(struct work_stru
 	} else {
 		/* no data available - try again later */
 		schedule_delayed_work(&st->work, st->poll_time_jiffies);
-		mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->mlock);
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (status & AD5933_STAT_SWEEP_DONE) {
@@ -691,7 +694,7 @@ static void ad5933_work(struct work_stru
 		ad5933_cmd(st, AD5933_CTRL_INC_FREQ);
 		schedule_delayed_work(&st->work, st->poll_time_jiffies);
 	}
-
+out:
 	mutex_unlock(&indio_dev->mlock);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-4.4/staging-iio-ad5933-avoid-uninitialized-variable-in-error-case.patch
queue-4.4/dib0700-fix-nec-repeat-handling.patch