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authorJon Burgess <jburgess@uklinux.net>2005-09-28 06:45:26 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-28 16:46:40 +0200
commit88bdcc5d5e9a7ea280f99262f48b70aba9d949bf (patch)
tree2543d9a35e2ae0e6ff577065edd577ed5b1dfdb1
parent[PATCH] v9fs: fix races in fid allocation (diff)
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[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 <jburgess@uklinux.net> Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
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];
}