[PATCH 2/2] staging: ft1000: Fix kernel panic when use ioctl.

From: Marek Belisko
Date: Tue Dec 14 2010 - 08:00:42 EST


During ioctl testing was observed kernel panic beuase
file->private_data pointer was not correctly set when
debugfs file was created. Add correct pointer setup.

Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_debug.c | 8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_debug.c b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_debug.c
index e398092..149ba59 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_debug.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_debug.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ int ft1000_create_dev(struct ft1000_device *dev)
}

file = debugfs_create_file("device", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, dir,
- NULL, &ft1000fops);
+ dev, &ft1000fops);
if (IS_ERR(file)) {
result = PTR_ERR(file);
goto debug_file_fail;
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ static long ft1000_ioctl (struct file *file, unsigned int command,
unsigned long argument)
{
void __user *argp = (void __user *)argument;
- struct net_device *dev;
struct ft1000_info *info;
struct ft1000_device *ft1000dev;
int result=0;
@@ -428,9 +427,8 @@ static long ft1000_ioctl (struct file *file, unsigned int command,

//DEBUG("FT1000:ft1000_ioctl:command = 0x%x argument = 0x%8x\n", command, (u32)argument);

- dev = file->private_data;
- info = netdev_priv(dev);
- ft1000dev = info->pFt1000Dev;
+ info = file->private_data;
+ ft1000dev = info->pFt1000Dev;
cmd = _IOC_NR(command);
//DEBUG("FT1000:ft1000_ioctl:cmd = 0x%x\n", cmd);

--
1.7.1

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