Clang warns (or errors with CONFIG_WERROR): ../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:235:6: error: variable 'helper' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-uninitialized] if (!fbdev) ^~~~~~ ../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:259:26: note: uninitialized use occurs here drm_fb_helper_unprepare(helper); ^~~~~~ ../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:235:2: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false if (!fbdev) ^~~~~~~~~~~ ../drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c:228:30: note: initialize the variable 'helper' to silence this warning struct drm_fb_helper *helper; ^ = NULL 1 error generated. Return early, as there is nothing for the function to do if memory cannot be allocated. There is no point in adding another label to just emit the warning at the end of the function in this case, as memory allocation failures are already logged. Fixes: 3fb1f62f80a1 ("drm/fb-helper: Remove drm_fb_helper_unprepare() from drm_fb_helper_fini()") Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1809 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202302250058.fYTe9aTP-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is currently showing in mainline so I believe this should go to drm-misc-next-fixes. --- drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c index 84429728347f..a6c8542087ec 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_fbdev.c @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ void omap_fbdev_init(struct drm_device *dev) fbdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*fbdev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!fbdev) - goto fail; + return; INIT_WORK(&fbdev->work, pan_worker); --- base-commit: e034b8a18d4badceecb672c58b488bad1e901d95 change-id: 20230224-omapdrm-wsometimes-uninitialized-0125f7692fbb Best regards, -- Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>