[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] i915: don't call drm_atomic_state_put on invalid pointer

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Oct 18 15:56:02 UTC 2016


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:16:23PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The introduction of reference counting on the state structures caused
> sanitize_watermarks() in i915 to break in the error handling case,
> as pointed out by gcc -Wmaybe-uninitialized
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c: In function ‘intel_modeset_init’:
> include/drm/drm_atomic.h:224:2: error: ‘state’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> This changes the function back to only drop the reference count
> when it was successfully allocated first.
> 
> Fixes: 0853695c3ba4 ("drm: Add reference counting to drm_atomic_state")
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Yup, missed that it jumps to fail before allocating state.

Function still looks a bit odd, but nvm
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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