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From: pgaikwad@nvidia•com (Prashant Gaikwad)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] clk: fix parent validation in __clk_set_parent()
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 06:27:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF4E679.10909@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341313938-17861-1-git-send-email-rnayak@ti.com>

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 04:42 PM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> The below commit introduced a bug in __clk_set_parent()
> which could cause it to *skip* the parent validation
> which makes sure the parent passed to the api is a valid
> one.

Need this fix for Tegra too.

>      commit 7975059db572eb47f0fb272a62afeae272a4b209
>      Author: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak@ti•com>
>      Date:   Wed Jun 6 14:41:31 2012 +0530
>
>          clk: Allow late cache allocation for clk->parents
>
> This was identified by the following compiler warning..
>
>      drivers/clk/clk.c: In function '__clk_set_parent':
>      drivers/clk/clk.c:1083:5: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
>
> .. as reported by Marc Kleine-Budde.
>
> There were various options discussed on how to fix this, one
> being initing 'i' to clk->num_parents, but the below approach
> was found to be more appropriate as it also makes the 'parent
> validation' code simpler to read.
>
> Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde<mkl@pengutronix•de>
> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak@ti•com>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-05  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03 11:12 [PATCH] clk: fix parent validation in __clk_set_parent() Rajendra Nayak
2012-07-05  0:57 ` Prashant Gaikwad [this message]
2012-07-05 19:18   ` Turquette, Mike

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