On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:54:14PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> This wrapper returned the result of mutex_lock_interruptible(); however,
> none of the callers checked the returned value.

Then why is the code logic changing?

> 
> As a result of a gcc upgrade to version 4.8.1, two false unitialized variable
> warnings appeared. To silence the warnings, they are initialized to 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c     | 3 ++-
>  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/usb_ops_linux.c     | 8 +++++---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/osdep_service.h | 9 ---------
>  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c       | 3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c 
> b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> index c197b22..e95a1ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> @@ -4429,7 +4429,8 @@ s32 dump_mgntframe_and_wait_ack(struct adapter 
> *padapter, struct xmit_frame *pmg
>       if (padapter->bSurpriseRemoved || padapter->bDriverStopped)
>               return -1;
>  
> -     _enter_critical_mutex(&pxmitpriv->ack_tx_mutex, NULL);
> +     if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&pxmitpriv->ack_tx_mutex))
> +             return -1;

That's not what the original code did, so this change could cause
problems, right?

> -static inline int _enter_critical_mutex(struct mutex *pmutex,
> -                                     unsigned long *pirqL)
> -{
> -     int ret;
> -
> -     ret = mutex_lock_interruptible(pmutex);
> -     return ret;
> -}

This didn't affect the caller function's code path...

I've applied this series up to here.

thanks,

greg k-h
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