[PATCH V2] staging: sm7xxfb: copy name of the device before calling smtc_alloc_fb_info

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 14 02:30:02 UTC 2012


On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:10:20PM +0545, Devendra Naga wrote:
> as we do a strcpy(smdrv_ptr->fb_struct->fix->id, name), and the name here in
> sm7xxx_probe is not having any assignment, and which leads to copying of the garbage value
> into the id field of the fix struct of fb interface struct. fix it by copying the name before
> calling alloc_fbinfo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <develkernel412222 at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes since V1:
>  Fix a null deref when smtc_alloc_fbinfo fails, this was added by me in V1.

Huh?  Please resend the correct patch you want me to apply, I'm confused
here.

greg k-h



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