From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:45:21 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Fix oops in acer_wmi driver (acer_wmi_init) X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83097aca8567a0bd593534853b71fe0fa9a75d69;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git Fix oops in acer_wmi driver (acer_wmi_init) The acer_wmi driver does a DMI scan for quirks, and then sets flags into the "interface" datastructure for some cases. However, the quirks happen real early before "interface" is per se initialized from NULL. The patch below 1) adds a NULL pointer check and 2) (re)runs the quirks at the end, when "interface" has it's final value. Reported-by: kerneloops.org Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c index b2d9878dc3f0..c6c77a505ec1 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c @@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ static struct quirk_entry *quirks; static void set_quirks(void) { + if (!interface) + return; + if (quirks->mailled) interface->capability |= ACER_CAP_MAILLED; @@ -1237,6 +1240,8 @@ static int __init acer_wmi_init(void) return -ENODEV; } + set_quirks(); + if (platform_driver_register(&acer_platform_driver)) { printk(ACER_ERR "Unable to register platform driver.\n"); goto error_platform_register;