Hello!

This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20240212 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan

You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits:

Fri Feb 9 14:01:15 2024 +0100 d6568e3de42d ("ALSA: virtio: add support for audio controls")

Coverity reported the following:

*** CID 1583619: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT) sound/virtio/virtio_kctl.c:294 in virtsnd_kctl_tlv_op() 288 289 break; 290 } 291 292 kfree(tlv); 293 vvv CID 1583619: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT) vvv Using uninitialized value "rc". 294 return rc; 295 } 296 297 /** 298 * virtsnd_kctl_get_enum_items() - Query items for the ENUMERATED element type. 299 * @snd: VirtIO sound device.

If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):

Reported-by: coverity-bot keescook+coverity-bot@chromium.org Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1583619 ("Uninitialized variables") Fixes: d6568e3de42d ("ALSA: virtio: add support for audio controls")

Thanks for your attention!

(Human comment: looks like there's no "default" case in the switch statement.)