Re: [PATCH v4] backlight: pwm_bl: Fix uninitialized variable

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Daniel Thompson wrote:

> Currently, if the DT does not define num-interpolated-steps then
> num_steps is undefined and the interpolation code will deploy randomly.
> Fix with a simple initialize to zero.
> 
> Fixes: 573fe6d1c25c ("backlight: pwm_bl: Linear interpolation between brightness-levels")
> Reported-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     v4:
>      - Remove line break from Fixes: and update the *-by:s
>     
>     v3:
>      - Switch to the simplest fix and zero the uninitialized variable. git
>        grep indicates that ~25% of calls to of_property_read_u32() use this
>        pattern (pre-initialize optional properties with sane values and
>        ignore the return code).
>     
>     v2:
>      - Simplify SoB chain (with Marcel's permission)
>      - Separate complex if statement and make other similar calls use same
>        return code checking approach
>      - Tidy up comment formatting and fix pre-existing grammar error
> 
>  drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

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