linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix null pointer derefence in sleep handlers

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Message-Id: <176036823039.2473.15648931584117338012.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:10:30 +0300
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>, 
 Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, Dell.Client.Kernel@...l.com, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, 
 Gal Hammer <galhammer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix null pointer
 derefence in sleep handlers

On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:26:26 -0500, Kurt Borja wrote:

> Initialize `awcc` with empty quirks to avoid a null pointer dereference
> in sleep handlers for devices without the AWCC interface.
> 
> This also allows some code simplification in alienware_wmax_wmi_init().
> 
> 


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-fixes branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-fixes branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/1] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Fix null pointer derefence in sleep handlers
      commit: 5ae9382ac3c56d044ed065d0ba6d8c42139a8f98

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