From ce01923678c90d46c0fd73903e4f2a2fcb405255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nolen Johnson <johnsonnolen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:27:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] drivers: hwtracing: coresight: Fix sometimes-uninitialized
 errors

Change-Id: Ia0a6242bec8ceaa27ef623a668e032a08e5fab0d
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-byte-cntr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-byte-cntr.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-byte-cntr.c
index d85b769ea9ce..a58649c839dc 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-byte-cntr.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-byte-cntr.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static ssize_t tmc_etr_byte_cntr_read(struct file *fp, char __user *data,
 			       size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	struct byte_cntr *byte_cntr_data = fp->private_data;
-	char *bufp;
+	char *bufp = NULL;
 	int ret = 0;
 	if (!data)
 		return -EINVAL;