From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit ed26f87b9f71693a1d1ee85f5e6209601505080f upstream. During probe the driver allocates dummy I2C device for RTC with i2c_new_dummy() but it does not check the return value of this call. In case of error (i2c_new_device(): memory allocation failure or I2C address cannot be used) this function returns NULL which is later used by i2c_unregister_device(). If i2c_new_dummy() fails for RTC device, fail also the probe for main MFD driver. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/mfd/max8998.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c index fe6332dcabee..25e131a0840a 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static int max8998_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c, mutex_init(&max8998->iolock); max8998->rtc = i2c_new_dummy(i2c->adapter, RTC_I2C_ADDR); + if (!max8998->rtc) { + dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to allocate I2C device for RTC\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } i2c_set_clientdata(max8998->rtc, max8998); max8998_irq_init(max8998); -- 1.9.2 -- 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