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Message-Id: <20071109170238.628fdf0d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:02:38 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "eric miao" <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, szabolcs.gyurko@....hu,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make ds1wm driver to check ds1wm_platform_data pointer
against NULL
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:07:31 +0800
"eric miao" <eric.y.miao@...il.com> wrote:
> Do a sanity check for the "struct ds1wm_platform_data" pointer passed in
> by the platform_device, and so to enforce each platform to provide a
> valid structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: eric miao <eric.miao@...vell.com>
> ---
> drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.c b/drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.c
> index 5747997..11ce9ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.c
> +++ b/drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.c
> @@ -351,6 +351,10 @@ static int ds1wm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> goto err0;
> }
> plat = pdev->dev.platform_data;
> + if (!plat) {
> + ret = -ENXIO;
> + goto err0;
> + }
> ds1wm_data->bus_shift = plat->bus_shift;
> ds1wm_data->pdev = pdev;
> ds1wm_data->pdata = plat;
I don't understand this change. Could you please provide some more details
regarding what problem it is solving? How can pdev->dev.platform_data==NULL
come about?
Thanks.
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