[PATCH][next] drm/amdgpu: fix return of an uninitialized value in variable ret

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Fri May 10 11:16:23 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:08:42AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> In the case where is_enable is false and lo_base_addr is non-zero the
> variable ret has not been initialized and is being checked for non-zero
> and potentially garbage is being returned. Fix this by not returning
> ret but instead returning -EINVAL on the zero lo_base_addr case.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: a6ac0b44bab9 ("drm/amdgpu: add df perfmon regs and funcs for xgmi")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c
> index a5c3558869fb..8c09bf994acd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/df_v3_6.c
> @@ -398,10 +398,7 @@ static int df_v3_6_start_xgmi_link_cntr(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>  				NULL);
>  
>  		if (lo_base_addr == 0)
> -			ret = -EINVAL;
> -
> -		if (ret)
> -			return ret;
> +			return -EINVAL;

>From a naive reading of the code without knowing the hardware spec then
you would probably think that lo_base_addr can also be uninitialized.

<sad face emoji>

regards,
dan carpenter



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