On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:31:56 +0530, Shubhrajyoti D wrote: > Prevent the NULL pointer access by moving the platform_set_drvdata function > after the access of the pdev. > > [ 654.961761] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070 > [ 654.970611] pgd = df254000 > [ 654.973480] [00000070] *pgd=9f1da831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 > [ 654.980163] Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] SMP ARM > [ 654.985076] Modules linked in: > [ 654.988281] CPU: 1 Not tainted (3.6.0-rc1-00031-ge547de1-dirty #339) > [ 654.995330] PC is at omap_i2c_runtime_resume+0x8/0x148 > [ 655.000732] LR is at omap_i2c_runtime_resume+0x8/0x148 > > Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (This will rather go in Ben's or Wolfram's i2c tree.) > --- > v2: Implement Jean's suggestion of not deleting instead make it NULL at a safer time. > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c | 3 +-- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c > index 5d19a49..c4ddb08 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c > @@ -1112,8 +1112,6 @@ static int __devexit omap_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) > struct resource *mem; > int ret; > > - platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); > - > free_irq(dev->irq, dev); > i2c_del_adapter(&dev->adapter); > ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev); > @@ -1127,6 +1125,7 @@ static int __devexit omap_i2c_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) > kfree(dev); > mem = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); > release_mem_region(mem->start, resource_size(mem)); > + platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); > return 0; > } > -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html