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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: firmware: Fix uninitialized variable ret
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
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On 05-08-2021 15:53, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 5:09 PM Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>>
>>> Currently the variable ret is uninitialized and is only set if
>>> the pointer alt_path is non-null. Fix this by ininitializing ret
>>> to zero.
>>>
>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>>> Fixes: 5ff013914c62 ("brcmfmac: firmware: Allow per-board firmware binaries")
>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> Nice catch!
>> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> 
> I assume this will be fixed by Linus' patch "brcmfmac: firmware: Fix
> firmware loading" and I should drop Colin's patch, correct?

That would be my assumption as well, but not sure when he will submit 
another revision of it. You probably know what to do ;-)

Regards,
Arend