From: Michael Hanselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Commit 40b20c257a13c5a526ac540bc5e43d0fdf29792a by Len Brown introduced
a null pointer dereference in the appledisplay driver. This patch fixes
it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.20.1.orig/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
+++ linux-2.6.20.1/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb
/* Register backlight device */
snprintf(bl_name, sizeof(bl_name), "appledisplay%d",
atomic_inc_return(&count_displays) - 1);
- pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL, NULL,
- &appledisplay_bl_data);
+ pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL,
+ pdata, &appledisplay_bl_data);
if (IS_ERR(pdata->bd)) {
err("appledisplay: Backlight registration failed");
goto error;
--
-
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