Re: [git pull] drm for 5.12-rc1

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 6:45 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 03:07:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:06 PM Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Let me know if there are any issues,
> >
> > gcc was happy, and I obviously already pushed out my merge, but then
> > when I did my clang build afterwards, it reports:
> >
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../pm/swsmu/smu_cmn.c:764:2: warning:
> > variable 'structure_size' is used uninitialized whenever switch
> > default is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> >           default:
> >           ^~~~~~~
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../pm/swsmu/smu_cmn.c:770:23: note:
> > uninitialized use occurs here
> >           memset(header, 0xFF, structure_size);
> >                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > and clang is very very right. That "default" case is completely
> > broken, and will generate a randomly sized memset. Not good.
> >
> > Presumably that default case never happens, but if so it shouldn't exist.
> >
> > Perhaps better yet, make the "default" case just do a "return" instead
> > of a break. Breaking out of the switch statement to code that cannot
> > possibly work is all kinds of mindless.
> >
> > Kevin/Alex? This was introduced by commit de4b7cd8cb87
> > ("drm/amd/pm/swsmu: unify the init soft gpu metrics function")
> >
> >               Linus
>
> I sent https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218224849.5591-1-nathan@xxxxxxxxxx/
> a few days ago and Kevin reviewed it, just seems like Alex needs to pick
> it up.

Yeah, sorry, I meant to include it, but it slipped through the cracks
last week.  Will include it in my -fixes PR this week.

Alex