The patch ffb4877ba0: "V4L/DVB: v4l2-common: simplify prio utility functions" accidentally removed the "dev = fh->dev;" assignment. Even before that change, we still could have passed a bogus "dev" pointer to cx25821_set_freq() if "fh" was null. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video.c b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video.c index 791212c..56a7521 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video.c +++ b/drivers/staging/cx25821/cx25821-video.c @@ -966,11 +966,13 @@ int cx25821_vidioc_s_frequency(struct file *file, void *priv, struct v4l2_freque struct cx25821_dev *dev; int err; - if (fh) { - err = v4l2_prio_check(&dev->prio, fh->prio); - if (0 != err) - return err; - } + if (!fh) + return -ENODEV; + + dev = fh->dev; + err = v4l2_prio_check(&dev->prio, fh->prio); + if (0 != err) + return err; return cx25821_set_freq(dev, f); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html