Re: [PATCH] pmdomain: mediatek: mfg: initialize prev_o in mtk_mfg_attach_dev()

Ulf Hansson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-mediatek,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-pm
Message-ID <CAPx+jO91LMn4SJXvy_zi2zOcmrDane07Mnh_+bKLztozFyPF-w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM Karl Mehltretter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> mtk_mfg_attach_dev() reads prev_o on the first iteration of its loop,
> in "if (prev_o && prev_o->freq == o->freq)", before prev_o is assigned
> at the end of the loop body. On that first iteration, evaluating prev_o
> reads an indeterminate value. If it is non-NULL, the condition
> dereferences a stale or invalid pointer, potentially faulting or
> incorrectly skipping the first OPP.
>
> Initialize prev_o to NULL. This matches the intent as well: there is no
> previous OPP to compare against on the first iteration.
>
> Found with Clang's -Wconditional-uninitialized.
>
> Fixes: f08e7a4e8d6ac ("pmdomain: mediatek: Add support for MFlexGraphics")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <[email protected]>

Applied for fixes and by adding a stable tag, thanks!

Kind regards
Uffe


> ---
>  drivers/pmdomain/mediatek/mtk-mfg-pmdomain.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pmdomain/mediatek/mtk-mfg-pmdomain.c b/drivers/pmdomain/mediatek/mtk-mfg-pmdomain.c
> index 53bdab66cf157..9a8a38d98cce7 100644
> --- a/drivers/pmdomain/mediatek/mtk-mfg-pmdomain.c
> +++ b/drivers/pmdomain/mediatek/mtk-mfg-pmdomain.c
> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int mtk_mfg_attach_dev(struct generic_pm_domain *pd, struct device *dev)
>         struct mtk_mfg *mfg = mtk_mfg_from_genpd(pd);
>         struct dev_pm_opp_data *so = mfg->stack_opps;
>         struct dev_pm_opp_data *go = mfg->gpu_opps;
> -       struct dev_pm_opp_data *prev_o;
> +       struct dev_pm_opp_data *prev_o = NULL;
>         struct dev_pm_opp_data *o;
>         int i, ret;
>
> --
> 2.53.0
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