Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] mfd: wm8994: Fix NULL pointer exception on missing pdata

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Tue Jun 09 2015 - 09:56:16 EST


On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:18:32PM +0900, Inha Song wrote:
> If we use the dev_get_platdata, pdata can be NULL in DT environments.
> Actually, NULL pointer exception is occurs with error messages like this:
>
> [ 1.226583] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000044
> [ 1.467910] [<c02f1e38>] (wm8994_irq_init) from [<c02f1bd4>] (wm8994_i2c_probe+0x684/0x858)
> [ 1.476241] [<c02f1bd4>] (wm8994_i2c_probe) from [<c0371c78>] (i2c_device_probe+0x11c/0x17c)
>
> In wm8994-core, we already checked wheter platform data is NULL and set the
> wm8994->pdata to platform data if platform data is not NULL.
> So, we can use wm8994->pdata instead of platform data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Inha Song <ideal.song@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Charles
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