The patch titled
null pointer dereference in appledisplay driver
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-appledisplay-driver.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: null pointer dereference in appledisplay driver
From: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Commit 40b20c257a13c5a526ac540bc5e43d0fdf29792a by Len Brown introduced
a null pointer dereference in the appledisplay driver. This patch fixes
it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c~fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-appledisplay-driver drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c~fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-appledisplay-driver
+++ a/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb
/* Register backlight device */
snprintf(bl_name, sizeof(bl_name), "appledisplay%d",
atomic_inc_return(&count_displays) - 1);
- pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL, NULL,
- &appledisplay_bl_data);
+ pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL,
+ pdata, &appledisplay_bl_data);
if (IS_ERR(pdata->bd)) {
err("appledisplay: Backlight registration failed");
goto error;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-acpi.patch
git-backlight.patch
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