On Tuesday, January 01, 2013 6:05 AM, Devendra Naga wrote > Hello, > > while reading through the backlight_register_device function, there backlight_register_device -> backlight_device_register > seems to be a problem if the new object name is null, the pr_debug > print goes and dereferences a null pointer causing an oops, > > the print should be removed or the check must be placed to ensure that > name is not null, Hi, If name is null in backlight_device_register(), pr_debug() will work properly and won't cause an oops. However, dev_set_name() will cause oops, instead of pr_debug(). In this case, NULL check would be better. Best regards, Jingoo Han > > any ideas? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
