2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Already in Linus' tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b25b791b13...
Fix a NULL pointer dereference that happened when calling
i2c_new_probed_device on one of the addresses for which we use byte
reads instead of quick write for detection purpose (that is: 0x30-0x37
and 0x50-0x5f).
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -1173,9 +1173,11 @@ i2c_new_probed_device(struct i2c_adapter
if ((addr_list[i] & ~0x07) == 0x30
|| (addr_list[i] & ~0x0f) == 0x50
|| !i2c_check_functionality(adap, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK)) {
+ union i2c_smbus_data data;
+
if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adap, addr_list[i], 0,
I2C_SMBUS_READ, 0,
- I2C_SMBUS_BYTE, NULL) >= 0)
+ I2C_SMBUS_BYTE, &data) >= 0)
break;
} else {
if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adap, addr_list[i], 0,
--
--
