From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965237AbcHNL5r (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 07:57:47 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:52322 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932828AbcHNL3q (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2016 07:29:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Dan Carpenter" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 047/305] ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get_status() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 92.40.249.202 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.37-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit f18ebc211e259d4f591e39e74b2aa2de226c9a1d upstream. The problem with ornamental, do-nothing gotos is that they lead to "forgot to set the error code" bugs. We should be returning -EINVAL here but we don't. It leads to an uninitalized variable in counter_show(): drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:603 counter_show() error: uninitialized symbol 'status'. Fixes: 1c8fce27e275 (ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c) Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c @@ -492,23 +492,22 @@ static void acpi_global_event_handler(u3 static int get_status(u32 index, acpi_event_status *status, acpi_handle *handle) { - int result = 0; + int result; if (index >= num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS) - goto end; + return -EINVAL; if (index < num_gpes) { result = acpi_get_gpe_device(index, handle); if (result) { ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, AE_NOT_FOUND, "Invalid GPE 0x%x", index)); - goto end; + return result; } result = acpi_get_gpe_status(*handle, index, status); } else if (index < (num_gpes + ACPI_NUM_FIXED_EVENTS)) result = acpi_get_event_status(index - num_gpes, status); -end: return result; }