Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>]

On 07/03/11 02:47, Chris Forbes wrote:
> Fixed an uninitialized variable access. In the first two error paths in
> max1363_probe(), 'st' is not yet initialized, but its 'reg' member is
> accessed anyway. This would most likely crash.
Good spot. Please tech TODO files for staging patches. In this case it would
have given you the mailing list, now cc'd.
> 
> The intended value for st->reg *is* available at that point in 'reg',
> so just use that directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c
> index 98cebd2..ebecf14 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c
> @@ -1335,11 +1335,11 @@ error_free_device:
>  	else
>  		iio_device_unregister(indio_dev);
>  error_disable_reg:
> -	if (!IS_ERR(st->reg))
> -		regulator_disable(st->reg);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(reg))
> +		regulator_disable(reg);
>  error_put_reg:
> -	if (!IS_ERR(st->reg))
> -		regulator_put(st->reg);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(reg))
> +		regulator_put(reg);
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }