Re: [PATCH 2/5] video: ARM CLCD: fix endpoint lookup logic

From: Tomi Valkeinen
Date: Tue Aug 30 2016 - 04:37:58 EST



On 29/08/16 16:18, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [I don't see why Torvalds was CC'ed on this patch? Was there
> some specific complaint from his side that I screw things up
> or just the wrong Linus?]
>
>> The addition of the Nomadik support in this driver introduced
>> a bug in clcdfb_of_init_display(), which now calls init_panel
>> with an uninitialized 'endpoint' pointer, as "gcc -Wmaybe-uninitialized"
>> warns:
>>
>> drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c: In function 'clcdfb_of_init_display':
>> drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c:785:5: error: 'endpoint' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>
>> This reverts the broken part of the function to what it was before
>> the patch, which is the best guess I have to what it should be.
>> I assume this was left over from an attempted rework of the
>> code that was partially backed out.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 046ad6cdeb3f ("video: ARM CLCD: support Nomadik variant")
>> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tomi: I think this bug was also reported by Ian King, so suggest
> adding his
> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks, queued for v4.9.

Tomi

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