On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Tim Bird <tbird...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > There appears to be a bug in the error handling in > drivers/gpi/gpiolib.c In certain error cases > desc_to_gpio() is called to get the gpio number > for an error message, but this may happen on code > paths where desc->chip is NULL. This causes a panic > on my system in gpiod_request(), as follows: (...) > Here's my patch: > Subject: [PATCH] gpio: avoid panic on NULL desc->chip in gpiod_request Patch applied. Unless we come up with something better, there is some parallel discussion on how to handle NULL descriptors. Alexandre: OK to apply this? Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
