The patch titled pata_platform: Fix NULL pointer dereference has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was pata_platform-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: pata_platform: Fix NULL pointer dereference From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> pata_platform: Fix NULL pointer dereference pata_platform currently dereferences a NULL pointer in pata_platform_probe() if pdev->dev.platform_data is set to NULL. This breakage was most likely introduced by commit 5f45bc50976ee1f408f7171af155aec646655a37. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/pata_platform.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/ata/pata_platform.c~pata_platform-fix-null-pointer-dereference drivers/ata/pata_platform.c --- a/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c~pata_platform-fix-null-pointer-dereference +++ a/drivers/ata/pata_platform.c @@ -213,8 +213,9 @@ static int __devinit pata_platform_probe pata_platform_setup_port(&ap->ioaddr, pp_info); /* activate */ - return ata_host_activate(host, platform_get_irq(pdev, 0), ata_interrupt, - pp_info->irq_flags, &pata_platform_sht); + return ata_host_activate(host, platform_get_irq(pdev, 0), + ata_interrupt, pp_info ? pp_info->irq_flags + : 0, &pata_platform_sht); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html