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Subject[RFC, 2.6.26.3-rc1] i2c: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i2c_new_probed_device
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From b25b791b13aaa336b56c4f9bd417ff126363f80b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
It is an RFC for sending this patch for stable, when this patch needed, then send ACK and CC stable,
if not then send NAK.

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From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:56:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] i2c: Fix NULL pointer dereference in i2c_new_probed_device

Fix a NULL pointer dereference that happened when calling
i2c_new_probed_device on one of the addresses for which we use byte
reads instead of quick write for detection purpose (that is: 0x30-0x37
and 0x50-0x5f).

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index 7bf38c4..c16dcad 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -1451,9 +1451,11 @@ i2c_new_probed_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap,
if ((addr_list[i] & ~0x07) == 0x30
|| (addr_list[i] & ~0x0f) == 0x50
|| !i2c_check_functionality(adap, I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK)) {
+ union i2c_smbus_data data;
+
if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adap, addr_list[i], 0,
I2C_SMBUS_READ, 0,
- I2C_SMBUS_BYTE, NULL) >= 0)
+ I2C_SMBUS_BYTE, &data) >= 0)
break;
} else {
if (i2c_smbus_xfer(adap, addr_list[i], 0,


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