From: Christian Krafft <redacted>
This patch adds a check for the private driver data to be initialized.
The bug showed up, as the caller found a pmi device by it's type.
Whereas the pmi driver probes for the type and the name.
Since the name was not as the driver expected, it did not initialize.
A more relaxed probing will be supplied with an extra patch, too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <redacted>
Index: sdk3/arch/powerpc/sysdev/pmi.c
===================================================================
--- sdk3.orig/arch/powerpc/sysdev/pmi.c
+++ sdk3/arch/powerpc/sysdev/pmi.c
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ void pmi_register_handler(struct of_devi
struct pmi_data *data;
data = device->dev.driver_data;
+ if (!data)
+ return;
+
spin_lock(&data->handler_spinlock);
list_add_tail(&handler->node, &data->handler);
spin_unlock(&data->handler_spinlock);
@@ -274,10 +277,12 @@ void pmi_unregister_handler(struct of_de
struct pmi_handler *handler)
{
struct pmi_data *data;
+ data = device->dev.driver_data;
- pr_debug("pmi: unregistering handler %p\n", handler);
+ if (!data)
+ return;
- data = device->dev.driver_data;
+ pr_debug("pmi: unregistering handler %p\n", handler);
spin_lock(&data->handler_spinlock);
list_del(&handler->node);
--
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
kind regards,
Christian Krafft
IBM Systems & Technology Group,
Linux Kernel Development
IT Specialist
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