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由 Andrey Borzenkov 提交于
When backlight_device_register() fails, return after undo initialization, do not try to use pointer that just was reset to NULL This fixes this oops: [ 1595.177672] [<c010480a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [ 1595.177706] [<c01052a2>] show_trace+0x12/0x20 [ 1595.177718] [<c0105305>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20 [ 1595.177728] [<c01c9375>] kobject_shadow_add+0x125/0x1c0 [ 1595.177754] [<c01c941a>] kobject_add+0xa/0x10 [ 1595.177764] [<c0239a37>] device_add+0x97/0x5d0 [ 1595.177776] [<c0239f82>] device_register+0x12/0x20 [ 1595.177786] [<dfd912df>] backlight_device_register+0x9f/0x110 [backlight] [ 1595.177814] [<df861117>] toshiba_acpi_init+0x117/0x15e [toshiba_acpi] [ 1595.177834] [<c013e28d>] sys_init_module+0xfd/0x14e0 [ 1595.177871] [<c0104112>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99 [ 1595.177883] ======================= [ 1595.177890] Could not register toshiba backlight device [ 1595.177985] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 ... [ 1595.394097] EIP: 0060:[<df861143>] Not tainted VLI [ 1595.394101] EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.23-rc9-1avb #24) [ 1595.480081] EIP is at toshiba_acpi_init+0x143/0x15e [toshiba_acpi] Signed-off-by: NAndrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Cc: John Belmonte <toshiba_acpi@memebeam.org> Acked-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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