linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] Staging: ipack/devices/ipoctal: fix oops when accessing "buffer"

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:15:44 +0200
From:	Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@...lia.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@...lia.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Staging: ipack/devices/ipoctal: fix oops when accessing "buffer"

The buffer[][] field was replaced by tty_port->xmit_buf field but there was
some places that "buffer" was still accessed, giving a kernel oops because
it was uninitialized.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@...lia.com>
---
 drivers/staging/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c b/drivers/staging/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
index 2921467..7fe1c93 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ipack/devices/ipoctal.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ struct ipoctal {
 	struct scc2698_channel		*chan_regs;
 	struct scc2698_block		*block_regs;
 	struct ipoctal_stats		chan_stats[NR_CHANNELS];
-	char				*buffer[NR_CHANNELS];
 	unsigned int			nb_bytes[NR_CHANNELS];
 	unsigned int			count_wr[NR_CHANNELS];
 	wait_queue_head_t		queue[NR_CHANNELS];
@@ -305,7 +304,7 @@ static int ipoctal_irq_handler(void *arg)
 				continue;
 			}
 			spin_lock(&ipoctal->lock[channel]);
-			value = ipoctal->buffer[channel][*pointer_write];
+			value = ipoctal->tty_port[channel].xmit_buf[*pointer_write];
 			ipoctal_write_io_reg(ipoctal,
 					     &ipoctal->chan_regs[channel].u.w.thr,
 					     value);
-- 
1.7.10

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