Re: pata_platform: Fix NULL pointer dereference

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Fri Jul 20 2007 - 00:03:28 EST


On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:50:58PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> pata_platform: Fix NULL pointer dereference
>
> pata_platform currently dereferences a NULL pointer in pata_platform_probe()
> if pdev->dev.platform_data is set to NULL. This breakage was most likely
> introduced by commit 5f45bc50976ee1f408f7171af155aec646655a37.
>
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@xxxxxxxxxx>

Without this, most of the sh and ppc pata_platform users won't boot.

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/