Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: imx: initialize peripheral_config/peripheral_size for sdma config

["gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 09:15:58AM +0000, Sherry Sun wrote:
> > On 03.08.22 08:57, Sherry Sun wrote:
> > > Since commit 824a0a02cd74 ("dmaengine: imx-sdma: Add multi fifo
> > > support") adds the use of
> > > dma_slave_config->peripheral_config/peripheral_size to sdma driver,
> > > the client drivers like uart need to initialize the
> > > peripheral_config/peripheral_size for sdma, otherwise, the random
> > > value of local variable slave_config may cause unexpected
> > peripheral_config and make sdma mess up.
> > >
> > 
> > If this a fix, please add a Fixes: tag. I am not sure it is though, see below.
> 
> Hi Ahmad, thanks for the comments.
> I don't think this patch is a fix for a specific commit, so we don't need the Fixes tag.
> 
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c index
> > > 522445a8f666..bb8c2a712e94 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c
> > > @@ -1320,6 +1320,8 @@ static int imx_uart_dma_init(struct imx_port
> > > *sport)
> > 
> > This function starts with
> > 
> > struct dma_slave_config slave_config = {};
> > 
> > >  	slave_config.src_addr_width = DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_1_BYTE;
> > >  	/* one byte less than the watermark level to enable the aging timer
> > */
> > >  	slave_config.src_maxburst = RXTL_DMA - 1;
> > > +	slave_config.peripheral_config = NULL;
> > > +	slave_config.peripheral_size = 0;
> > 
> > So these are already zero-initialized.
> 
> I am not sure actually, I think initialize a struct with {} cannot guarantee that all members are initialized to 0, it may depend on the compiler.

Not true, it's part of the C standard somewhere...

thanks,

greg k-h