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Message-ID: <305092f3-7901-0a69-3459-b9f6b7d198db@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:50:38 +0300 (EEST)
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
cc: Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>,
platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, Dell.Client.Kernel@...l.com,
LKML <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 Tue, 14 Oct 2025, Kurt Borja wrote:
> On Mon Oct 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM -05, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > i.
>
> Hi Ilpo,
>
> Gal has just noticed this approach prevents the old driver interface
> from loading, which is a huge regression.
>
> Do you prefer to drop this commit or should I submit a revert?
>
> Thank you for your patience!
Okay, thanks for the information. I'll drop it, it's very easy to drop as
it's the HEAD commit.
--
i.
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