[PATCH 1/9] gpiolib: Fix possible use of wrong name

[johan@kernel.org (Johan Hovold)]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> The name is set optionally from DT. Therefore we need to reset the name
> variable for every loop iteration. Otherwise we could use a wrong or
> uninitialized name.

This doesn't make sense. of_get_gpio_hog falls back to using the node
name so name will always be updated (unless there's an error).

Could be better documented, though.

> Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
> index 9a0ec48a4737..60aebe4d7c26 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
> @@ -209,11 +209,11 @@ static void of_gpiochip_scan_hogs(struct gpio_chip *chip)
>  {
>  	struct gpio_desc *desc = NULL;
>  	struct device_node *np;
> -	const char *name;
>  	enum gpio_lookup_flags lflags;
>  	enum gpiod_flags dflags;
>  
>  	for_each_child_of_node(chip->of_node, np) {
> +		const char *name = NULL;
>  		if (!of_property_read_bool(np, "gpio-hog"))
>  			continue;

Johan