Re: [PATCH] V4L/DVB: budget: Oops: "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"

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Hi,

Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Never call dvb_frontend_detach if we failed to attach a frontend. This fixes
> the following oops, which will be triggered by a missing stv090x module:
> 
> [    8.172997] DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget S2-1600 PCI)
> [    8.209018] adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:cc:a7:29
> [    8.328665] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> [    8.328753] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
> [    8.562047] DVB: Unable to find symbol stv090x_attach()
> [    8.562117] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000ac
> [    8.562239] IP: [<e08b04a3>] dvb_frontend_detach+0x4/0x67 [dvb_core]
> ...
> 
> Ref http://bugs.debian.org/575207
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 575207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> This patch should apply cleanly to 2.6.32, 2.6.33, 2.6.34-rc2 and with an 
> offset to git://linuxtv.org/v4l-dvb.git
> 
> Please apply to all of them
> 
> 
>  drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c |    3 ---
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c
> index e48380c..95a463c 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c
> @@ -643,9 +643,6 @@ static void frontend_init(struct budget *budget)
>  					&budget->i2c_adap,
>  					&tt1600_isl6423_config);
>  
> -			} else {
> -				dvb_frontend_detach(budget->dvb_frontend);
> -				budget->dvb_frontend = NULL;
>  			}
>  		}
>  		break;

This patch fixes only one of three possible problems.

Could you please extend your patch in a way
that it will also catch, if
- dvb_attach(stv6110x_attach,...)
- dvb_attach(isl6423_attach,...)
fail?

CU
Oliver

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