A list of sysfs attribute groups is NULL-terminated, so we always need
to allocate data for at least two groups (the dynamically generated group
plus the NULL pointer). Add a comment to explain the situation.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index a0b5becf91fa..8dc0466a9307 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
if (chip) {
struct attribute **attrs;
- int ngroups = 2;
+ int ngroups = 2; /* terminating NULL plus &hwdev->groups */
if (groups)
for (i = 0; groups[i]; i++)
--
2.5.0
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