Re: [RFC PATCH] vmwgfx: Fix assignment in vmw_framebuffer_create_handle

[Thomas Hellstrom]

On 01/27/2012 07:25 AM, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> The assignment of handle in vmw_framebuffer_create_handle doesn't
> actually do anything useful and is incorrectly assigning an integer
> value to a pointer argument. It appears that this is a typo and should
> be dereferencing handle rather than assigning to it directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon<rmallon@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> index 0af6ebd..b66ef0e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ int vmw_framebuffer_create_handle(struct drm_framebuffer *fb,
>   				  unsigned int *handle)
>   {
>   	if (handle)
> -		handle = 0;
> +		*handle = 0;
>
>   	return 0;
>   }

Ryan,
Please repost this patch with Jakobs Reviewed-by: and below that a
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,
Thomas

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