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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] riva CalcStateExt gcc 4.1 warning fix
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:35:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147257343.17886.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605100256.k4A2u56F031749@dwalker1.mvista.com>

On Maw, 2006-05-09 at 19:56 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> This could be a bug. The return from CalcVClock isn't checked
> so the variables in questions could be random data ..
> 
> Fixes the following warning,
> 
> drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c: In function 'CalcStateExt':
> drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c:1241: warning: 'p' may be used uninitialized in this function
> drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c:1241: warning: 'n' may be used uninitialized in this function
> drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c:1241: warning: 'm' may be used uninitialized in this function
> drivers/video/riva/riva_hw.c:1241: warning: 'VClk' may be used uninitialized in this function

But zero isn't valid data. You need to fix the missing return check not
hide the warnings. This goes for just about every patch in this series


      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-10 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10  2:56 Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 10:35 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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