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 the 3.15-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:
extcon-max8997-fix-null-pointer-exception-on-missing-pdata.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dfee4111febf3d9ef3a640b2cd6205c75f4e7e3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit dfee4111febf3d9ef3a640b2cd6205c75f4e7e3d upstream.
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>
Fixes: 810d601f07c
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int max8997_muic_probe(struct pla
goto err_irq;
}
- if (pdata->muic_pdata) {
+ if (pdata && pdata->muic_pdata) {
struct max8997_muic_platform_data *muic_pdata
= pdata->muic_pdata;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/extcon-max14577-properly-handle-regmap_irq_get_virq-error.patch
queue-3.15/extcon-max14577-fix-probe-failure-on-successful-work-queue.patch
queue-3.15/extcon-max77693-fix-two-null-pointer-exceptions-on-missing-pdata.patch
queue-3.15/extcon-max8997-fix-null-pointer-exception-on-missing-pdata.patch
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