From: Jon Burgess Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:45:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] dvb: fix NULL pointer dereference when loading the budget-av module X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88bdcc5d5e9a7ea280f99262f48b70aba9d949bf;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git [PATCH] dvb: fix NULL pointer dereference when loading the budget-av module Ralph Metzler wrote: > AFAIR, there is a bug in tda10021.c in tda10021_readreg() which > references state->frontend.dvb->num > This is fatal if the frontend is not at the probed address and thus > not yet registered (no dvb entry set yet -> NULL pointer ...). The attached patch should get rid of the oops. Signed-off-by: Jon Burgess Cc: Johannes Stezenbach Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c index 87d5f4d8790f..eaf130e666d8 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c @@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ static u8 tda10021_readreg (struct tda10021_state* state, u8 reg) ret = i2c_transfer (state->i2c, msg, 2); if (ret != 2) - printk("DVB: TDA10021(%d): %s: readreg error (ret == %i)\n", - state->frontend.dvb->num, __FUNCTION__, ret); + printk("DVB: TDA10021: %s: readreg error (ret == %i)\n", + __FUNCTION__, ret); return b1[0]; }