This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Input: max8997-haptic - fix NULL pointer dereference to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: input-max8997-haptic-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6ae645d5fa385f3787bf1723639cd907fe5865e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 09:31:47 -0700 Subject: Input: max8997-haptic - fix NULL pointer dereference From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6ae645d5fa385f3787bf1723639cd907fe5865e7 upstream. NULL pointer derefence happens when booting with DTB because the platform data for haptic device is not set in supplied data from parent MFD device. The MFD device creates only platform data (from Device Tree) for itself, not for haptic child. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000009c pgd = c0004000 [0000009c] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM (max8997_haptic_probe) from [<c03f9cec>] (platform_drv_probe+0x4c/0xb0) (platform_drv_probe) from [<c03f8440>] (driver_probe_device+0x214/0x2c0) (driver_probe_device) from [<c03f8598>] (__driver_attach+0xac/0xb0) (__driver_attach) from [<c03f67ac>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0x9c) (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c03f7a38>] (bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x218) (bus_add_driver) from [<c03f8db0>] (driver_register+0x78/0xf8) (driver_register) from [<c0101774>] (do_one_initcall+0x90/0x1d8) (do_one_initcall) from [<c0a00dbc>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x15c/0x1fc) (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c06bb5b4>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x114) (kernel_init) from [<c0107938>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c) Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 104594b01ce7 ("Input: add driver support for MAX8997-haptic") [k.kozlowski: Write commit message, add CC-stable] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/input/misc/max8997_haptic.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/input/misc/max8997_haptic.c +++ b/drivers/input/misc/max8997_haptic.c @@ -255,12 +255,14 @@ static int max8997_haptic_probe(struct p struct max8997_dev *iodev = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent); const struct max8997_platform_data *pdata = dev_get_platdata(iodev->dev); - const struct max8997_haptic_platform_data *haptic_pdata = - pdata->haptic_pdata; + const struct max8997_haptic_platform_data *haptic_pdata = NULL; struct max8997_haptic *chip; struct input_dev *input_dev; int error; + if (pdata) + haptic_pdata = pdata->haptic_pdata; + if (!haptic_pdata) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no haptic platform data\n"); return -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/input-max8997-haptic-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html