From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422803AbXCGROv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422800AbXCGROq (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:46 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43639 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422785AbXCGRO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:28 -0500 Message-Id: <20070307171240.944155031@mini.kroah.org> References: <20070307171035.150802805@mini.kroah.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.45-1 Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:11:00 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Cc: Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , Chuck Ebbert , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, len.brown@intel.com, cappaberra@gmail.com, Michael Hanselmann Subject: [patch 025/101] Fix null pointer dereference in appledisplay driver Content-Disposition: inline; filename=fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-appledisplay-driver.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Michael Hanselmann Commit 40b20c257a13c5a526ac540bc5e43d0fdf29792a by Len Brown introduced a null pointer dereference in the appledisplay driver. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.20.1.orig/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c +++ linux-2.6.20.1/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c @@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb /* Register backlight device */ snprintf(bl_name, sizeof(bl_name), "appledisplay%d", atomic_inc_return(&count_displays) - 1); - pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL, NULL, - &appledisplay_bl_data); + pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL, + pdata, &appledisplay_bl_data); if (IS_ERR(pdata->bd)) { err("appledisplay: Backlight registration failed"); goto error; --