From: Vipin Mehta Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:13:02 +0000 (-0800) Subject: staging: ath6kl: Fixing a NULL pointer exception X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~20521^2~494 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da101d563503d399d92412e833b6d5ae49c8ee5d;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git staging: ath6kl: Fixing a NULL pointer exception The driver was dereferencing a NULL pointer because of the device instance being registered via the set_wiphy_dev() function. The function ar6000_avail_ev() was passing the argument as NULL instead of using the one returned by the MMC stack through the probe callback. Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/ath6kl/os/linux/ar6000_drv.c b/drivers/staging/ath6kl/os/linux/ar6000_drv.c index 26dafc90451e..4f6ddf759493 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ath6kl/os/linux/ar6000_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ath6kl/os/linux/ar6000_drv.c @@ -1604,6 +1604,14 @@ ar6000_avail_ev(void *context, void *hif_handle) struct wireless_dev *wdev; #endif /* ATH6K_CONFIG_CFG80211 */ int init_status = 0; + HIF_DEVICE_OS_DEVICE_INFO osDevInfo; + + memset(&osDevInfo, 0, sizeof(osDevInfo)); + if (HIFConfigureDevice(hif_handle, HIF_DEVICE_GET_OS_DEVICE, + &osDevInfo, sizeof(osDevInfo))) { + AR_DEBUG_PRINTF(ATH_DEBUG_ERR,("%s: Failed to get OS device instance\n", __func__)); + return A_ERROR; + } AR_DEBUG_PRINTF(ATH_DEBUG_INFO,("ar6000_available\n")); @@ -1623,7 +1631,7 @@ ar6000_avail_ev(void *context, void *hif_handle) device_index = i; #ifdef ATH6K_CONFIG_CFG80211 - wdev = ar6k_cfg80211_init(NULL); + wdev = ar6k_cfg80211_init(osDevInfo.pOSDevice); if (IS_ERR(wdev)) { AR_DEBUG_PRINTF(ATH_DEBUG_ERR, ("%s: ar6k_cfg80211_init failed\n", __func__)); return A_ERROR; @@ -1668,12 +1676,7 @@ ar6000_avail_ev(void *context, void *hif_handle) #ifdef SET_NETDEV_DEV if (ar_netif) { - HIF_DEVICE_OS_DEVICE_INFO osDevInfo; - A_MEMZERO(&osDevInfo, sizeof(osDevInfo)); - if (!HIFConfigureDevice(hif_handle, HIF_DEVICE_GET_OS_DEVICE, - &osDevInfo, sizeof(osDevInfo))) { - SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, osDevInfo.pOSDevice); - } + SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, osDevInfo.pOSDevice); } #endif