Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd/uncore: fix error codes in amd_uncore_init()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:

> Some of the error paths in this function return don't initialize the
> error code.  Return -ENODEV.
> 
> Fixes: d6389d3ccc13 ("perf/x86/amd/uncore: Refactor uncore management")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c
> index 9b444ce24108..a389828f378c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/uncore.c
> @@ -1009,7 +1009,8 @@ static struct amd_uncore uncores[UNCORE_TYPE_MAX] = {
>  static int __init amd_uncore_init(void)
>  {
>  	struct amd_uncore *uncore;
> -	int ret, i;
> +	int ret = -ENODEV;
> +	int i;
>  
>  	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD &&
>  	    boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_HYGON)

Ugh, why on Earth didn't GCC warn about this? The bad pattern is pretty 
simple & obvious once pointed out ... compilers should have no trouble 
realizing that 'ret' is returned uninitialized in some of these control 
paths. Yet not a peep from the compiler ...

Thanks for the fix!

	Ingo