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From: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:29:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: silence an uninitialized variable warning
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To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org


On 4/4/2019 2:12 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch complains that "ret" might be uninitialized.  I can see why it
> generates the warning, but I don't know if it's actually possible.
> Anyway initializing "ret" here is harmless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
>   drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
> index 1c488024c698..fc58d660692f 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/mdt_loader.c
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static int __qcom_mdt_load(struct device *dev, const struct firmware *fw,
>   
>   	if (reloc_base)
>   		*reloc_base = mem_reloc;
> -
> +	ret = 0;


You are overriding the value here, better keep it at the start.
Thanks,
Mukesh

>   out:
>   	kfree(fw_name);
>