On Wednesday 27 January 2016 19:26:13 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> So, why give the compiler a hard time as you're doing, why make the code
> harder to read. What's wrong with:
>
> spin_lock_bh(&local->baplock);
>
>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:45:26PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> To ensure we get consistent error handling here, this changes the code
> to only set rlen if we actually read data correctly, which also takes
> care of the warning.
It may be a good idea to do the job better. Looking at the code:
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
