The patch titled
acpi: don't free non-existent backlight in acpi video module
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
acpi-dont-free-non-existent-backlight-in-acpi-video-module.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: acpi: don't free non-existent backlight in acpi video module
From: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
acpi_video_put_one_device was attempting to remove sysfs entries and
unregister a backlight device without first checking that said backlight
device structure had been created.
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/video.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/acpi/video.c~acpi-dont-free-non-existent-backlight-in-acpi-video-module drivers/acpi/video.c
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c~acpi-dont-free-non-existent-backlight-in-acpi-video-module
+++ a/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -2006,8 +2006,11 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_put_one_device
status = acpi_remove_notify_handler(device->dev->handle,
ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
acpi_video_device_notify);
- sysfs_remove_link(&device->backlight->dev.kobj, "device");
- backlight_device_unregister(device->backlight);
+ if (device->backlight) {
+ sysfs_remove_link(&device->backlight->dev.kobj, "device");
+ backlight_device_unregister(device->backlight);
+ device->backlight = NULL;
+ }
if (device->cdev) {
sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev->dev.kobj,
"thermal_cooling");
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from keithp@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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