When writing a value using direct reg access from debugfs we need to return and not fall through to reading the value, lest we'll dereference a NULL pointer. Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/light/bh1780.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/bh1780.c b/drivers/iio/light/bh1780.c index 72b364e4aa72..f83595334ff1 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/bh1780.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/bh1780.c @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int bh1780_debugfs_reg_access(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, int ret; if (!readval) - bh1780_write(bh1780, (u8)reg, (u8)writeval); + return bh1780_write(bh1780, (u8)reg, (u8)writeval); ret = bh1780_read(bh1780, (u8)reg); if (ret < 0) -- 2.4.11 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html