[bug report] drm/msm/adreno: Add support for ACD

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 12:28:31AM +0530, Akhil P Oommen wrote:
> On 8/13/2025 11:18 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 10:28:38PM +0530, Akhil P Oommen wrote:
> >> On 8/7/2025 9:23 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >>> Hello Akhil P Oommen,
> >>>
> >>> Commit b733fe7bff8b ("drm/msm/adreno: Add support for ACD") from Apr
> >>> 19, 2025 (linux-next), leads to the following Smatch static checker
> >>> warning:
> >>>
> >>> 	drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gmu.c:1700 a6xx_gmu_acd_probe()
> >>> 	error: 'opp' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
> >>>
> >>> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a6xx_gmu.c
> >>>     1668 static int a6xx_gmu_acd_probe(struct a6xx_gmu *gmu)
> >>>     1669 {
> >>>     1670         struct a6xx_gpu *a6xx_gpu = container_of(gmu, struct a6xx_gpu, gmu);
> >>>     1671         struct a6xx_hfi_acd_table *cmd = &gmu->acd_table;
> >>>     1672         struct adreno_gpu *adreno_gpu = &a6xx_gpu->base;
> >>>     1673         struct msm_gpu *gpu = &adreno_gpu->base;
> >>>     1674         int ret, i, cmd_idx = 0;
> >>>     1675         extern bool disable_acd;
> >>>     1676 
> >>>     1677         /* Skip ACD probe if requested via module param */
> >>>     1678         if (disable_acd) {
> >>>     1679                 DRM_DEV_ERROR(gmu->dev, "Skipping GPU ACD probe\n");
> >>>     1680                 return 0;
> >>>     1681         }
> >>>     1682 
> >>>     1683         cmd->version = 1;
> >>>     1684         cmd->stride = 1;
> >>>     1685         cmd->enable_by_level = 0;
> >>>     1686 
> >>>     1687         /* Skip freq = 0 and parse acd-level for rest of the OPPs */
> >>>     1688         for (i = 1; i < gmu->nr_gpu_freqs; i++) {
> >>>     1689                 struct dev_pm_opp *opp;
> >>>     1690                 struct device_node *np;
> >>>     1691                 unsigned long freq;
> >>>     1692                 u32 val;
> >>>     1693 
> >>>     1694                 freq = gmu->gpu_freqs[i];
> >>>     1695                 opp = dev_pm_opp_find_freq_exact(&gpu->pdev->dev, freq, true);
> >>>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>> No error checking.
> >>
> >> We are passing back a freq which we pulled out from the opp_table a few
> >> lines before this. So it is unlikely that this call would fail.
> >>
> >> But it is okay to add a check here if that would make Smatch checker happy.
> >>
> > 
> > No, no, just ignore it, if it can't fail.
> > 
> > Or I can add dev_pm_opp_find_freq_exact() to the "no need to check" list.
> > That's easy to do.
> 
> Would that make Smatch ignore usage of "dev_pm_opp_find_freq_exact()" in
> other code/drivers? If yes, we may not want that.

It just wouldn't print this warning if people left off the error handling.

I'm going to ignore it anyway, right?  I recently had a case where I got
mixed up which functions needed error handling and I ignored the wrong one.
We still caught it in testing, but I'm also going through and marking which ones
to ignore or not.

regards,
dan carpenter