[PATCH 4/7] drivers/gpu/drm: remove invalid reference to list iterator variable

[Julia Lawall]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Paul Menzel wrote:

> Dear Julia,
>
>
> Am Sonntag, den 08.07.2012, 13:37 +0200 schrieb Julia Lawall:
>> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
>>
>> If list_for_each_entry, etc complete a traversal of the list, the iterator
>> variable ends up pointing to an address at an offset from the list head,
>> and not a meaningful structure.  Thus this value should not be used after
>> the end of the iterator.
>>
>> In the first two cases, a a break is added after the switch; the break in
>
> s,a a,a,

Thanks.

>> the switch would jump out of the switch, but not out of the complete
>> iteration.
>>
>> In the first case, the null test on connector is removed, because the
>> iterator variable of list_for_each_entry is never null.
>>
>> In the third case, entry->base.crtc.fb is not a meaningful value.  What
>> seems to be intended is crtc->fb, which gets the information from the last
>> element of the list.
>
> maybe three separate patches would have been better?

OK, I wasn't sure what would be best.  I'll send three patches now.

>> These problems were found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
>
> I always liked your example Coccinelle code snippets. Could you add them
> again to your commit messages? That would be awesome!

Sure.  I didn't include it because there was a 0/7 message that has the 
complete semantic patch.

julia

>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall at lip6.fr>
>>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_intel_display.c |    4 +---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c       |    1 +
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ldu.c          |    2 +-
>>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_intel_display.c
>> index 3f3cd61..fc1ced0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_intel_display.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/mdfld_intel_display.c
>> @@ -755,9 +755,6 @@ static int mdfld_crtc_mode_set(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>  					sizeof(struct drm_display_mode));
>>
>>  	list_for_each_entry(connector, &mode_config->connector_list, head) {
>> -		if (!connector)
>> -			continue;
>> -
>>  		encoder = connector->encoder;
>>
>>  		if (!encoder)
>> @@ -779,6 +776,7 @@ static int mdfld_crtc_mode_set(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>  			is_hdmi = true;
>>  			break;
>>  		}
>> +		break;
>>  	}
>>
>>  	/* Disable the VGA plane that we never use */
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c
>> index f821c83..4b2172e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c
>> @@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static int oaktrail_crtc_mode_set(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>>  			is_mipi = true;
>>  			break;
>>  		}
>> +		break;
>>  	}
>>
>>  	/* Disable the VGA plane that we never use */
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ldu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ldu.c
>> index 070fb23..634611a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ldu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_ldu.c
>> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int vmw_ldu_commit_list(struct vmw_private *dev_priv)
>>
>>  		if (crtc == NULL)
>>  			return 0;
>> -		fb = entry->base.crtc.fb;
>> +		fb = crtc->fb;
>>
>>  		return vmw_kms_write_svga(dev_priv, w, h, fb->pitches[0],
>>  					  fb->bits_per_pixel, fb->depth);
>
> Acked-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>