Return-path: Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.82]:61443 "EHLO mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752536Ab2HRV0U (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:26:20 -0400 From: Julia Lawall To: Stanislav Yakovlev Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/5] drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: introduce missing initialization Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:25:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1345325159-7365-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> (sfid-20120818_232810_437959_DBC4F53D) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Julia Lawall The result of one call to a function is tested, and then at the second call to the same function, the previous result, and not the current result, is tested again. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression ret; identifier f; statement S1,S2; @@ *ret = f(...); if (\(ret != 0\|ret < 0\|ret == NULL\)) S1 ... when any *f(...); if (\(ret != 0\|ret < 0\|ret == NULL\)) S2 // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c index 8a34202..2f3f6f2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c @@ -2042,7 +2042,8 @@ static void isr_indicate_associated(struct ipw2100_priv *priv, u32 status) return; } len = ETH_ALEN; - ipw2100_get_ordinal(priv, IPW_ORD_STAT_ASSN_AP_BSSID, &bssid, &len); + ret = ipw2100_get_ordinal(priv, IPW_ORD_STAT_ASSN_AP_BSSID, &bssid, + &len); if (ret) { IPW_DEBUG_INFO("failed querying ordinals at line %d\n", __LINE__);