[PATCH] dvb: fix NULL pointer dereference when loading the budget-av module
Ralph Metzler wrote:
> AFAIR, there is a bug in tda10021.c in tda10021_readreg() which
> references state->frontend.dvb->num
> This is fatal if the frontend is not at the probed address and thus
> not yet registered (no dvb entry set yet -> NULL pointer ...).
The attached patch should get rid of the oops.
Signed-off-by: Jon Burgess <jburgess@uklinux.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c
index 87d5f4d..eaf130e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@
ret = i2c_transfer (state->i2c, msg, 2);
if (ret != 2)
- printk("DVB: TDA10021(%d): %s: readreg error (ret == %i)\n",
- state->frontend.dvb->num, __FUNCTION__, ret);
+ printk("DVB: TDA10021: %s: readreg error (ret == %i)\n",
+ __FUNCTION__, ret);
return b1[0];
}