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| author | Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org> | 2014-12-02 07:32:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com> | 2015-01-13 13:49:01 -0800 |
| commit | 0c86ac2c50647451d6a70dc900f8bb0ee3d485d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 56dd9c7f8ed93c5095a0a6a27a1d06b69a6c01a3 /drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c | |
| parent | eaa27f34e91a14cdceed26ed6c6793ec1d186115 (diff) | |
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leds: netxbig: fix oops at probe time
This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference on led_dat->mode_val. Due to
this bug, a kernel oops can be observed at probe time on the LaCie 2Big
and 5Big v2 boards:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
[...]
[<c03f244c>] (netxbig_led_probe) from [<c02c8c6c>] (platform_drv_probe+0x4c/0x9c)
[<c02c8c6c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c02c72d0>] (driver_probe_device+0x98/0x25c)
[<c02c72d0>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c02c7520>] (__driver_attach+0x8c/0x90)
[<c02c7520>] (__driver_attach) from [<c02c5c24>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0x94)
[<c02c5c24>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c02c6408>] (bus_add_driver+0x124/0x1dc)
[<c02c6408>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c02c7ac0>] (driver_register+0x78/0xf8)
[<c02c7ac0>] (driver_register) from [<c000888c>] (do_one_initcall+0x80/0x1cc)
[<c000888c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0733618>] (kernel_init_freeable+0xe4/0x1b4)
[<c0733618>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c058db9c>] (kernel_init+0xc/0xec)
[<c058db9c>] (kernel_init) from [<c0009850>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
[...]
This bug was introduced by commit 588a6a99286ae30afb1339d8bc2163517b1b7dd1
("leds: netxbig: fix attribute-creation race").
Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17+
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c b/drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c index 26515c27ea8c..25e419752a7b 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-netxbig.c @@ -330,18 +330,18 @@ create_netxbig_led(struct platform_device *pdev, led_dat->sata = 0; led_dat->cdev.brightness = LED_OFF; led_dat->cdev.flags |= LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME; - /* - * If available, expose the SATA activity blink capability through - * a "sata" sysfs attribute. - */ - if (led_dat->mode_val[NETXBIG_LED_SATA] != NETXBIG_LED_INVALID_MODE) - led_dat->cdev.groups = netxbig_led_groups; led_dat->mode_addr = template->mode_addr; led_dat->mode_val = template->mode_val; led_dat->bright_addr = template->bright_addr; led_dat->bright_max = (1 << pdata->gpio_ext->num_data) - 1; led_dat->timer = pdata->timer; led_dat->num_timer = pdata->num_timer; + /* + * If available, expose the SATA activity blink capability through + * a "sata" sysfs attribute. + */ + if (led_dat->mode_val[NETXBIG_LED_SATA] != NETXBIG_LED_INVALID_MODE) + led_dat->cdev.groups = netxbig_led_groups; return led_classdev_register(&pdev->dev, &led_dat->cdev); } |