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    leds: netxbig: fix oops at probe time · 0c86ac2c
    Simon Guinot authored
    This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference on led_dat->mode_val. Due to
    this bug, a kernel oops can be observed at probe time on the LaCie 2Big
    and 5Big v2 boards:
    
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
    [...]
    [<c03f244c>] (netxbig_led_probe) from [<c02c8c6c>] (platform_drv_probe+0x4c/0x9c)
    [<c02c8c6c>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c02c72d0>] (driver_probe_device+0x98/0x25c)
    [<c02c72d0>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c02c7520>] (__driver_attach+0x8c/0x90)
    [<c02c7520>] (__driver_attach) from [<c02c5c24>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0x94)
    [<c02c5c24>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c02c6408>] (bus_add_driver+0x124/0x1dc)
    [<c02c6408>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c02c7ac0>] (driver_register+0x78/0xf8)
    [<c02c7ac0>] (driver_register) from [<c000888c>] (do_one_initcall+0x80/0x1cc)
    [<c000888c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0733618>] (kernel_init_freeable+0xe4/0x1b4)
    [<c0733618>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c058db9c>] (kernel_init+0xc/0xec)
    [<c058db9c>] (kernel_init) from [<c0009850>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
    [...]
    
    This bug was introduced by commit 588a6a99
    
    
    ("leds: netxbig: fix attribute-creation race").
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Guinot <simon.guinot@sequanux.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17+
    Acked-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
    0c86ac2c