This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/bridge: display-connector: fix an uninitialized pointer in probe()
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-bridge-display-connector-fix-an-uninitialized-po.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fdbece3d8e5ae07f01ca615721c35b92007f89f5
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 13 11:08:25 2021 +0300
drm/bridge: display-connector: fix an uninitialized pointer in probe()
[ Upstream commit 189723fbe9aca18d6f7d638c59a40288030932b5 ]
The "label" pointer is used for debug output. The code assumes that it
is either NULL or valid, but it is never set to NULL. It is either
valid or uninitialized.
Fixes: 0c275c30176b ("drm/bridge: Add bridge driver for display connectors")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211013080825.GE6010@kili
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/display-connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/display-connector.c
index 4d278573cdb99..544a47335cac4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/display-connector.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/display-connector.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static int display_connector_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct display_connector *conn;
unsigned int type;
- const char *label;
+ const char *label = NULL;
int ret;
conn = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*conn), GFP_KERNEL);
