linux-kernel - [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: fix return of garbage

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:49:53 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: fix return of garbage

Incase of error we printed the error message and returned ret. But ret
was never initialized and so we have been returning garbage value on
error.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
index 61fb7f3..43ed33f1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
@@ -1685,7 +1685,6 @@ int vmw_kms_helper_dirty(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
 	struct drm_crtc *crtc;
 	u32 num_units = 0;
 	u32 i, k;
-	int ret;
 
 	dirty->dev_priv = dev_priv;
 
@@ -1711,7 +1710,7 @@ int vmw_kms_helper_dirty(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
 			if (!dirty->cmd) {
 				DRM_ERROR("Couldn't reserve fifo space "
 					  "for dirty blits.\n");
-				return ret;
+				return -EIO;
 			}
 			memset(dirty->cmd, 0, dirty->fifo_reserve_size);
 		}
-- 
1.9.1

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