[RESEND PATCH 2/3] arm_mpam: resctrl: Fix the check for no monitor components found

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Mon Apr 20 07:05:15 PDT 2026


From: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com>

Dan Carpenter reports that, in mpam_resctrl_alloc_domain(), any_mon_comp is
used in an 'if' condition when it may be uninitialized. Initialize it to
NULL so that the check behaves correctly when no monitor components are
found.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>
Fixes: 264c285999fc ("arm_mpam: resctrl: Add monitor initialisation and domain boilerplate")
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
---
 drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c
index 4205fb2ee312..1b0b37da12af 100644
--- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ mpam_resctrl_alloc_domain(unsigned int cpu, struct mpam_resctrl_res *res)
 	}
 
 	if (r->mon_capable) {
-		struct mpam_component *any_mon_comp;
+		struct mpam_component *any_mon_comp = NULL;
 		struct mpam_resctrl_mon *mon;
 		enum resctrl_event_id eventid;
 
-- 
2.53.0




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list