Hello Jeykumar Sankaran, The patch 25fdd5933e4c: "drm/msm: Add SDM845 DPU support" from Jun 27, 2018, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c:562 msm_drm_init() warn: 'priv->disp_thread[i].thread' isn't an ERR_PTR drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c 540 /** 541 * this priority was found during empiric testing to have appropriate 542 * realtime scheduling to process display updates and interact with 543 * other real time and normal priority task 544 */ 545 param.sched_priority = 16; 546 for (i = 0; i < priv->num_crtcs; i++) { 547 548 /* initialize display thread */ 549 priv->disp_thread[i].crtc_id = priv->crtcs[i]->base.id; 550 kthread_init_worker(&priv->disp_thread[i].worker); 551 priv->disp_thread[i].dev = ddev; 552 priv->disp_thread[i].thread = ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 553 kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn, 554 &priv->disp_thread[i].worker, 555 "crtc_commit:%d", priv->disp_thread[i].crtc_id); 556 ret = sched_setscheduler(priv->disp_thread[i].thread, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Only pass valid pointers to this because it's going to dereference it. 557 SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); 558 if (ret) 559 pr_warn("display thread priority update failed: %d\n", 560 ret); 561 562 if (IS_ERR(priv->disp_thread[i].thread)) { ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Too late. 563 dev_err(dev, "failed to create crtc_commit kthread\n"); 564 priv->disp_thread[i].thread = NULL; 565 } 566 567 /* initialize event thread */ 568 priv->event_thread[i].crtc_id = priv->crtcs[i]->base.id; 569 kthread_init_worker(&priv->event_thread[i].worker); 570 priv->event_thread[i].dev = ddev; 571 priv->event_thread[i].thread = 572 kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn, 573 &priv->event_thread[i].worker, 574 "crtc_event:%d", priv->event_thread[i].crtc_id); regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel