Re: [PATCH] iio: pressure: zpa2326: Remove always-true check which confuses gcc

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed,  5 Jul 2017 10:14:59 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> With gcc 4.1.2:
> 
>     drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c: In function ‘zpa2326_wait_oneshot_completion’:
>     drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c:868: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> When testing for "timeout < 0", timeout is already guaranteed to be
> strict negative, so the branch is always taken, and ret is thus always
> initialized.  But (some version of) gcc is not smart enough to notice.
> 
> Remove the check to fix this.
> As there is no other code in between assigning the error codes and
> returning them, the error codes can be returned immediately, and the
> intermediate variable can be dropped.
> Drop the "else" to please checkpatch.
> 
> Fixes: e7215fe4d51e69c9 ("iio: pressure: zpa2326: report interrupted case as failure")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Sorry - this one got missed originally.  Not quite sure why!

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for
the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c | 10 +++-------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c b/drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c
> index c92a95f9f52c2141..531b88ce336184d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/pressure/zpa2326.c
> @@ -865,7 +865,6 @@ static irqreturn_t zpa2326_handle_threaded_irq(int irq, void *data)
>  static int zpa2326_wait_oneshot_completion(const struct iio_dev   *indio_dev,
>  					   struct zpa2326_private *private)
>  {
> -	int          ret;
>  	unsigned int val;
>  	long     timeout;
>  
> @@ -887,14 +886,11 @@ static int zpa2326_wait_oneshot_completion(const struct iio_dev   *indio_dev,
>  		/* Timed out. */
>  		zpa2326_warn(indio_dev, "no one shot interrupt occurred (%ld)",
>  			     timeout);
> -		ret = -ETIME;
> -	} else if (timeout < 0) {
> -		zpa2326_warn(indio_dev,
> -			     "wait for one shot interrupt cancelled");
> -		ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
> +		return -ETIME;
>  	}
>  
> -	return ret;
> +	zpa2326_warn(indio_dev, "wait for one shot interrupt cancelled");
> +	return -ERESTARTSYS;
>  }
>  
>  static int zpa2326_init_managed_irq(struct device          *parent,