linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] backlight: lm3630a: Initialize backlight

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:07:54 +0100
From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>
To: Luca Weiss <luca@...tu.xyz>, ~postmarketos/upstreaming@...ts.sr.ht,
 phone-devel@...r.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
 Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
 Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 "G.Shark Jeong" <gshark.jeong@...il.com>,
 Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
 Maximilian Weigand <mweigand@...igand.net>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] backlight: lm3630a: Initialize backlight_properties
 on init

On 20.02.2024 00:11, Luca Weiss wrote:
> The backlight_properties struct should be initialized to zero before
> using, otherwise there will be some random values in the struct.
> 
> Fixes: 0c2a665a648e ("backlight: add Backlight driver for lm3630 chip")
> Signed-off-by: Luca Weiss <luca@...tu.xyz>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c
> index a3412c936ca2..8e275275b808 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c
> @@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ static int lm3630a_backlight_register(struct lm3630a_chip *pchip)
>  	struct backlight_properties props;
>  	const char *label;
>  
> +	memset(&props, 0, sizeof(struct backlight_properties));

You can zero-initialize it instead

Konrad