From: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> clang-21 points out a variable that is conditionally initialized but then dereferenced:
drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c:1138:6: error: variable 'crtc_state' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] 1138 | if (plane_state->crtc) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c:1142:58: note: uninitialized use occurs here 1142 | ret = dpu_plane_atomic_check_nosspp(plane, plane_state, crtc_state); | ^~~~~~~~~~ drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c:1138:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true 1138 | if (plane_state->crtc) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1139 | crtc_state = drm_atomic_get_new_crtc_state(state, drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c:1132:35: note: initialize the variable 'crtc_state' to silence this warning 1132 | struct drm_crtc_state *crtc_state; | ^ | = NULL The bug is real, but the suggestion from clang to set it to NULL is unfortunately just as harmful as dereferencing a NULL pointer is little better than uninitialized data. Change the function to return an error in this case. Fixes: 774bcfb73176 ("drm/msm/dpu: add support for virtual planes") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> --- drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c index 01171c535a27..4987f2f2fee0 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/dpu1/dpu_plane.c @@ -1135,10 +1135,10 @@ static int dpu_plane_virtual_atomic_check(struct drm_plane *plane, if (IS_ERR(plane_state)) return PTR_ERR(plane_state); - if (plane_state->crtc) - crtc_state = drm_atomic_get_new_crtc_state(state, - plane_state->crtc); + if (!plane_state->crtc) + return -ENXIO; + crtc_state = drm_atomic_get_new_crtc_state(state, plane_state->crtc); ret = dpu_plane_atomic_check_nosspp(plane, plane_state, crtc_state); if (ret) return ret; -- 2.39.5