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Commit 3a6d8676 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by Linus Torvalds
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x86: apm: avoid uninitialized data



apm_bios_call() can fail, and return a status in its argument structure.
If that status however is zero during a call from
apm_get_power_status(), we end up using data that may have never been
set, as reported by "gcc -Wmaybe-uninitialized":

  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c: In function ‘apm’:
  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1729:17: error: ‘bx’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1835:5: error: ‘cx’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1730:17: note: ‘cx’ was declared here
  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1842:27: error: ‘dx’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1731:17: note: ‘dx’ was declared here

This changes the function to return "APM_NO_ERROR" here, which makes the
code more robust to broken BIOS versions, and avoids the warning.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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