linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] drm/gma500: initialize gma_clock

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:55:22 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] drm/gma500: initialize gma_clock_t structures

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 03:57:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> The two functions pass a partially initialized structure back to the
>>> caller after a memset() on the destination.
>>>
>>> This is not entirely well-defined, most compilers are sensible enough
>>> to either keep the zero-initialization for the uninitialized members,
>>> but gcc-4.4 does not, and it warns about this:
>>>
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c: In function 'mrst_sdvo_find_best_pll':
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:175: warning: 'clock.vco' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:175: warning: 'clock.dot' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:175: warning: 'clock.p2' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:175: warning: 'clock.m2' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:175: warning: 'clock.m1' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c: In function 'mrst_lvds_find_best_pll':
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:208: warning: 'clock.p' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:208: warning: 'clock.vco' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:208: warning: 'clock.p2' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:208: warning: 'clock.m2' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:208: warning: 'clock.m1' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_crtc.c:208: warning: 'clock.n' may be used uninitialized in this function
>>>
>>> This adds an initialization at declaration time to avoid the warning
>>> and make it well-defined on all compiler versions.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>
>> Applied to drm-misc-next-fixes for 4.16, thx for your patch.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> Aside: Still don't want commit rights? :-)
>
> I think I'm fine without. While I do tend to have a backlog on DRM
> patches that I'd
> like to get merged, they are generally of the kind that I should not
> apply myself
> without the maintainer being involved in some form, and then they can commit
> it themselves.

Commit rights isn't for pushing unreviewed stuff (our scripts will
remind you of that if you try). But you could just volunteer someone
to review the entire pile and then push it, instead of nagging every
single slacking maintainer individually.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch