This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
extcon: max8997: Fix NULL pointer exception on missing pdata
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
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From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:20:14 +0200
Subject: extcon: max8997: Fix NULL pointer exception on missing pdata
Fix NULL pointer exception when platform data is not supplied. The
driver dereferenced pdata pointer where it could be NULL.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 810d601f07c
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
index 6a00464658c5..5e1b88cecb76 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int max8997_muic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err_irq;
}
- if (pdata->muic_pdata) {
+ if (pdata && pdata->muic_pdata) {
struct max8997_muic_platform_data *muic_pdata
= pdata->muic_pdata;
--
2.0.0.rc3.2.g998f840
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