-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Yu Luming <[email protected]>
Fix Null pointer deref in video/lcd/brightness
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5571
Signed-off-by: Yu Luming <[email protected]>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
---
drivers/acpi/video.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.14.4.orig/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ linux-2.6.14.4/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ acpi_video_device_write_brightness(struc
ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE("acpi_video_device_write_brightness");
- if (!dev || count + 1 > sizeof str)
+ if (!dev || !dev->brightness || count + 1 > sizeof str)
return_VALUE(-EINVAL);
if (copy_from_user(str, buffer, count))
--
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