> On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 10:30 +0000, Kandpal, Suraj wrote: > > > When intel_display_device_probe() (and, subsequently, > > > probe_gmdid_display()) returns, the caller expects ver, rel and step > > > to be initialized. Since there's no way to check that there was a > > > failure and no_display was returned without some further > > > refactoring, pre- initiliaze all these values to zero to keep it > > > simple and safe. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coe...@intel.com> > > > > Looks okay to me just a small suggestion/question below. > > > > > --- > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.c | 9 +++++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.c > > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.c > > > index 464df1764a86..fb6354e9e704 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.c > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_device.c > > > @@ -731,6 +731,15 @@ probe_gmdid_display(struct drm_i915_private > > > *i915, u16 *ver, u16 *rel, u16 *step > > > u32 val; > > > int i; > > > > > > + /* The caller expects to ver, rel and step to be > > > initialized > > > + * here, and there's no good way to check when there was a > > > + * failure and no_display was returned. So initialize all > > > these > > > + * values here zero, to be sure. > > > + */ > > > + *ver = 0; > > > + *rel = 0; > > > + *step = 0; > > > + > > > > From what I can see this is only called from > > intel_display_device_probe() which is in turn called from > > intel_device_info_driver_create() where the above variables are > > defined maybe we initialize these values there itself. > > Thanks for the review! > > I thought about initializing the variables on the caller side, but reckoned > that > it would be more intuitive to initialize them in the > probe_gmdid_display() function instead, because the caller expects those > values to be set in successful cases and there's no way for it to know whether > there was a failure or not (because we return a pointer to local no_display > structure that the caller doesn't know about). > > Obviously with the current code in the caller, that doesn't make much > difference, but I thought it was cleaner as I did. > > But I'm okay to change it and initialize them at the caller, so just let me > know > if you want that.
I don’t think it needs to be changed then and the explanation looks reasonable. So this LGTM Reviewed-by: Suraj Kandpal <suraj.kand...@intel.com> > > -- > Cheers, > Luca.
