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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:10:07 -0500
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
To:     Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Cc:     Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>, Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
        dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: mp3309c: fix uninitialized local variable
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 04:08:39PM +0100, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
> In the function "pm3309c_parse_dt_node", when the dimming analog control
> mode (by I2C messages) is enabled, the local variable "prop_levels" is
> tested without any initialization, as indicated by the following smatch
> warning (thanks to Dan Carpenter for the report):

Good to see credit for the reporter but please use a "Reported-by:" tag
for that. There should probably be a "Fixed:" tag too.


> drivers/video/backlight/mp3309c.c:279 pm3309c_parse_dt_node() error: uninitialized symbol 'prop_levels'.
>
> To avoid any problem in case of undefined behavior, we need to initialize
> it to "NULL".
> For consistency, I also initialize the other similar variable
> "prop_pwms" in the same way.

I don't love redundant initializations... but I can live with it ;-) .


Daniel.