[PATCH] clk: fix parent validation in __clk_set_parent()

Turquette, Mike mturquette at ti.com
Thu Jul 5 15:18:30 EDT 2012


On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad at nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 July 2012 04:42 PM, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>
>> The below commit introduced a bug in __clk_set_parent()
>> which could cause it to *skip* the parent validation
>> which makes sure the parent passed to the api is a valid
>> one.
>
>
> Need this fix for Tegra too.
>

Hi Prashant,

You'll find it if you pull the latest clk-next.

Regards,
Mike

>
>>      commit 7975059db572eb47f0fb272a62afeae272a4b209
>>      Author: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak at ti.com>
>>      Date:   Wed Jun 6 14:41:31 2012 +0530
>>
>>          clk: Allow late cache allocation for clk->parents
>>
>> This was identified by the following compiler warning..
>>
>>      drivers/clk/clk.c: In function '__clk_set_parent':
>>      drivers/clk/clk.c:1083:5: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in
>> this function [-Wuninitialized]
>>
>> .. as reported by Marc Kleine-Budde.
>>
>> There were various options discussed on how to fix this, one
>> being initing 'i' to clk->num_parents, but the below approach
>> was found to be more appropriate as it also makes the 'parent
>> validation' code simpler to read.
>>
>> Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde<mkl at pengutronix.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak<rnayak at ti.com>
>>
>



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