xe_vm_bind_kernel_bo() declares the variable fence without initializing it. If an error occurs before fence is assigned a valid value, the function may return an uninitialized pointer. Specifically, this can happen if: - vm_bind_ioctl_ops_create() fails, leading to release_vm_lock error path Initialize fence to NULL at declaration. Fixes: dcdd6b84d9ac ("drm/xe/pxp: Allocate PXP execution resources") Signed-off-by: Dheeraj Reddy Jonnalagadda <dheeraj.linuxdev@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c index d664f2e418b2..b6ca53ede904 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c @@ -3184,7 +3184,7 @@ struct dma_fence *xe_vm_bind_kernel_bo(struct xe_vm *vm, struct xe_bo *bo, { struct xe_vma_ops vops; struct drm_gpuva_ops *ops = NULL; - struct dma_fence *fence; + struct dma_fence *fence = NULL; int err; xe_bo_get(bo); -- 2.34.1