> The driver reads a value from hfa384x_from_bap(), which may fail,
> and then assigns the value to a local variable. gcc detects that
> in in the failure case, the 'rlen' variable now contains
> uninitialized data:
>
> In file included from
> ../drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_pci.c:220:0:
> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_hw.c: In function
> 'hfa384x_get_rid':
> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_hw.c:842:5: warning: 'rec' may be
> used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> if (le16_to_cpu(rec.len) == 0) {
>
> This restructures the function as suggested by Russell King, to
> make it more readable and get more reliable error handling, by
> handling each failure mode using a goto.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.
Kalle Valo
