Re: [PATCH] drm/msm: return early when allocating fbdev fails

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Wed Feb 22 2023 - 13:21:36 EST


On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 22.02.23 um 16:56 schrieb Tom Rix:
> > building with clang and W=1 reports
> > drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fbdev.c:144:6: error: variable 'helper' is used
> > uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> > if (!fbdev)
> > ^~~~~~
> >
> > helper is only initialized after fbdev succeeds, so is in a garbage state at
> > the fail: label. There is nothing to unwinded if fbdev alloaction fails,
> > return NULL.
> >
> > Fixes: 3fb1f62f80a1 ("drm/fb-helper: Remove drm_fb_helper_unprepare() from drm_fb_helper_fini()")
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Already fixed here: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/08e3340e-b459-0e60-4bba-30716b675e05@xxxxxxx/T/#t

There is also:

../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:235:6: error: variable 'helper' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
if (!fbdev)
^~~~~~
../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:259:26: note: uninitialized use occurs here
drm_fb_helper_unprepare(helper);
^~~~~~
../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:235:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
if (!fbdev)
^~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:228:30: note: initialize the variable 'helper' to silence this warning
struct drm_fb_helper *helper;
^
= NULL
1 error generated.

Is the fix the same as the one you have linked above?

Cheers,
Nathan