Hi Heiko,It turns out, nothing bad happens (i.e. rockchip_rgb_fini, the only place where the connector is also used, isn't called if rockchip_rgb_init fails) - so it will be OK if we make the connector a pointer in struct rockchip_rgb. But we'll need to keep it a "full" struct drm_connector in struct rockchip_lvds, since in case it's a panel it gets properties assigend before drm_connector_init is called and should for that reason initialized before.
Am 22.09.21 um 18:45 schrieb Heiko Stübner:
Hi Alex,
Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2021, 18:35:38 CEST schrieb Alex Bee:
Hi Colin,I think the issue is more the two lines
Am 22.09.21 um 13:24 schrieb Colin King:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>The pointer to the connector is used in rockchip_rgb_fini for
The pointer connector is being assigned a value that is never
read, it is being updated immediately afterwards. The assignment
is redundant and can be removed.
drm_connector_cleanup.
It's pretty much the same for the encoder, btw.
connector = &rgb->connector;
connector = drm_bridge_connector_init(rgb->drm_dev, encoder);
hence the connector = &rgb->connector being overwritten immediately after
Now that I look at it again, the whole approach looks strange.
drm_bridge_connector_init() creates the connector structure and
returns a pointer to it.
Totally agreed.
The main reason I was doing it that way, was the way it was done already in rockchip_lvds.c, where the connector was already existent in the struct rockchip_lvds (and was already used in the panel-case - all places where it is used accept pointers also, btw) and is *no* pointer - and is done already this very strange way.
I wanted to re-use it for the bridge-case and didn't want to differ in coding in rockchip-rgb to much.
The only reason I can think of, why it was done that way is, that we might need a pointer to a fully initialized struct drm_connector for some reason (drm_connector_cleanup ?), what we wouldn't have if have just a pointer and something goes wrong before drm_connector_init respectivly drm_bridge_connector_init.
Alex
So the first line below sets the connector pointer to point to the
&rgb->connector element and the second line then set a completely
different address into it.
So the connector element in rockchip_lvds and rockchip_rgb should actually
become a pointer itself to hold the connector element returned from
drm_bridge_connector_init() .
Heiko
Regards,
Alex
Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c
index 09be9678f2bd..18fb84068a64 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_rgb.c
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ struct rockchip_rgb *rockchip_rgb_init(struct device *dev,
if (ret)
goto err_free_encoder;
- connector = &rgb->connector;
connector = drm_bridge_connector_init(rgb->drm_dev, encoder);
if (IS_ERR(connector)) {
DRM_DEV_ERROR(drm_dev->dev,