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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/efidrm: ensure screen_base is initialized
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:11:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734ee3ksz.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250411125554.1453825-1-arnd@kernel.org>

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

Hello Arnd,

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> clang points out that there is a code path that leads to undefined behavior:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/sysfb/efidrm.c:353:11: error: variable 'screen_base' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
>   353 |         else if (mem_flags & EFI_MEMORY_WB)
>       |                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Add the missing initialization.
>
> Fixes: 32ae90c66fb6 ("drm/sysfb: Add efidrm for EFI displays")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---

A similar patch has been proposed by Nathan already and acked by Thomas:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2025-April/500539.html

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-11 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-11 12:55 [PATCH] drm/efidrm: ensure screen_base is initialized Arnd Bergmann
2025-04-11 13:11 ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2025-04-11 13:52   ` Thomas Zimmermann

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