The mt9t031 driver hasn't yet been updated to support asynchronous subdevice probing. If such a probing is attempted, the driver is allowed to fail, but it shouldn't Oops. This patch fixes such a potential NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> --- drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/mt9t031.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/mt9t031.c b/drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/mt9t031.c index 47d18d0..ee7bb0f 100644 --- a/drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/mt9t031.c +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/soc_camera/mt9t031.c @@ -594,9 +594,12 @@ static int mt9t031_s_power(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, int on) ret = soc_camera_power_on(&client->dev, ssdd, mt9t031->clk); if (ret < 0) return ret; - vdev->dev.type = &mt9t031_dev_type; + if (vdev) + /* Not needed during probing, when vdev isn't available yet */ + vdev->dev.type = &mt9t031_dev_type; } else { - vdev->dev.type = NULL; + if (vdev) + vdev->dev.type = NULL; soc_camera_power_off(&client->dev, ssdd, mt9t031->clk); } -- 1.7.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html