Re: drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/runtime/rmgr/src/rmgr_vbuf.c:275: dangling pointer ?

From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed Jan 19 2022 - 05:29:32 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:53:48AM +0000, David Binderman wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Recent gcc development versions say:
>
> drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/runtime/rmgr/src/rmgr_vbuf.c:275:33: warning: storing the address of local variable ‘h’ in ‘*handle’ [-Wdangling-pointer=]
>
> Source code is
>
> *handle = &h;
>
> but h is a stack local variable, so exporting its address doesn't make any sense.

Great, can you send a patch to fix this up?

thanks,

greg k-h