On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 20:32:12 +0100 (CET) Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr> 
wrote:

> The function cmos_do_probe contains the code:
> 
>               if (is_hpet_enabled()) {
>                         int err;
> 
>                         rtc_cmos_int_handler = hpet_rtc_interrupt;
>                       err = hpet_register_irq_handler(cmos_interrupt);
>                         if (err != 0) {
>                                 dev_warn(dev, "hpet_register_irq_handler "
>                                                 " failed in rtc_init().");
>                                 goto cleanup1;
>                         }
>                 }
> 
> Is it intentional that the error code returned by 
> hpet_register_irq_handler is put ina local variable that will not be seen 
> at label cleanup1?  The return value is retval, which is 0 at this point.

No, I'd say that's a bug.  How does this look?


From: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c: propagate hpet_register_irq_handler() failure

If hpet_register_irq_handler() fails, cmos_do_probe() will incorrectly
return 0.

Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c~drivers-rtc-rtc-cmosc-propagate-hpet_register_irq_handler-failure
 drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
--- 
a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c~drivers-rtc-rtc-cmosc-propagate-hpet_register_irq_handler-failure
+++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
@@ -708,11 +708,9 @@ cmos_do_probe(struct device *dev, struct
                irq_handler_t rtc_cmos_int_handler;
 
                if (is_hpet_enabled()) {
-                       int err;
-
                        rtc_cmos_int_handler = hpet_rtc_interrupt;
-                       err = hpet_register_irq_handler(cmos_interrupt);
-                       if (err != 0) {
+                       retval = hpet_register_irq_handler(cmos_interrupt);
+                       if (retval) {
                                dev_warn(dev, "hpet_register_irq_handler "
                                                " failed in rtc_init().");
                                goto cleanup1;
_

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