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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 16:04:04 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Stuart Summers <stuart.summers@...el.com>,
        Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/i915: fix uninitialized variable
 'subslice_mask'

On 29/05/2019 16:04, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2019, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> Currently subslice_mask is not initialized and so data is being
>> bit-wise or'd into a garbage value. Fix this by inintializing
>> subslice_mask to zero.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>> Fixes: 1ac159e23c2c ("drm/i915: Expand subslice mask")
> 
> This was already reverted for other reasons. Need to be fixed on the
> next round. For future reference, please Cc: author and reviewers of the
> referenced commit.

OK, will do.

Thanks, Colin
> 
> BR,
> Jani.
> 
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.c
>> index 3625f777f3a3..d395a09b994f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_device_info.c
>> @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static void cherryview_sseu_info_init(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
>>  {
>>  	struct sseu_dev_info *sseu = &RUNTIME_INFO(dev_priv)->sseu;
>>  	u32 fuse;
>> -	u8 subslice_mask;
>> +	u8 subslice_mask = 0;
>>  
>>  	fuse = I915_READ(CHV_FUSE_GT);
>