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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2008-08-12 10:50:29 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-08-20 11:15:46 -0700
commit8d1fddf801ddebbc287a5567270ba866ce51a3c2 (patch)
tree1f63146eb3de82845e4dfc91e506f633a1855c33 /drivers
parentc119d39883ca9a7016a37fc701f7cbe7c3d03956 (diff)
i2c: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i2c_new_probed_device
Already in Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b25b791b13aaa336b56c4f9bd417ff126363f80b 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index 8b645c6b2cb5..fd2123b2d7e6 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -1173,9 +1173,11 @@ i2c_new_probed_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap,
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,