gcc-4.9 notices that the validate_init() function returns unintialized data when called with a zero 'nr_buffers' argument, when called with the -Wmaybe-uninitialized flag:
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c: In function ‘validate_init.isra.6’: drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c:457:5: error: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
However, the only caller of this function always passes a nonzero argument, and gcc-6 is clever enough to take this into account and not warn about it any more.
Adding an explicit initialization to -EINVAL here is correct even if the caller changed, and it avoids the warning on gcc-4.9 as well.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c index 0bd7164bc817..4f3c5f3eaa16 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_gem.c @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ validate_init(struct nouveau_channel *chan, struct drm_file *file_priv, { struct nouveau_cli *cli = nouveau_cli(file_priv); int trycnt = 0; - int ret, i; + int ret = -EINVAL, i; struct nouveau_bo *res_bo = NULL; LIST_HEAD(gart_list); LIST_HEAD(vram_list);