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[3.13.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "extcon: max8997: Fix NULL pointer exception on missing pdata" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa July 15, 2014, 9:29 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    extcon: max8997: Fix NULL pointer exception on missing pdata

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 4514e1dd6d29158839895ec22b4f602f2086254f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 15:20:14 +0200
Subject: extcon: max8997: Fix NULL pointer exception on missing pdata

commit dfee4111febf3d9ef3a640b2cd6205c75f4e7e3d upstream.

Fix NULL pointer exception when platform data is not supplied. The
driver dereferenced pdata pointer where it could be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Fixes: 810d601f07c
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
index 6a00464..5e1b88c 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-max8997.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@  static int max8997_muic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		goto err_irq;
 	}

-	if (pdata->muic_pdata) {
+	if (pdata && pdata->muic_pdata) {
 		struct max8997_muic_platform_data *muic_pdata
 			= pdata->muic_pdata;