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Subject[patch 11/14] V4L: bttv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in radio_open
2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

cherry picked from commit c37396c19403e249f12626187d51e92c915f2bc9

Fix the following crash in the bttv driver:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000036c
IP: [<ffffffffa037860a>] radio_open+0x3a/0x170 [bttv]

This happens because radio_open assumes that all present bttv devices
have a radio function. If a bttv device without radio and one with
radio are installed on the same system, and the one without radio is
registered first, then radio_open checks for the radio device number
of a bttv device that has no radio function, and this breaks. All we
have to do to fix it is to skip bttv devices without a radio function.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
@@ -3422,7 +3422,7 @@ static int radio_open(struct inode *inod
dprintk("bttv: open minor=%d\n",minor);

for (i = 0; i < bttv_num; i++) {
- if (bttvs[i].radio_dev->minor == minor) {
+ if (bttvs[i].radio_dev && bttvs[i].radio_dev->minor == minor) {
btv = &bttvs[i];
break;
}
--


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