From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932270AbbCPONt (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:13:49 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54853 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932175AbbCPONp (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:13:45 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Cameron Subject: [PATCH 3.19 069/177] Revert "iio:humidity:si7020: fix pointer to i2c client" Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:07:56 +0100 Message-Id: <20150316140816.236410227@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.3 In-Reply-To: <20150316140813.085032723@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150316140813.085032723@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jonathan Cameron commit e765537add38cf7967efa11999bb5daf84a6517d upstream. This reverts commit e0922e5e3ccb78aa0152e93dfbd1755ac39c8582. Requested by Andrey Smirnov. It incorrectly assumes that the level of indirection is not needed which is not true(probably because the driver incorrectly allocates sizeof(*client) instead of sizeof(*data) via devm_iio_device_alloc). If you look at the code of the probe function(see below) it is easy to see that what is being stored in the private memory of the IIO device instance is not a copy of a 'struct i2c_client' but a pointer to an instance passed as an argument to the probe function. struct i2c_client **data; int ret; < Some code skipped > indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&client->dev, sizeof(*client)); if (!indio_dev) return -ENOMEM; data = iio_priv(indio_dev); *data = client; Without reverting this change any read of a raw value of this sensor leads to a kernel oops due to a NULL pointer de-reference on my hardware setup. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/iio/humidity/si7020.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/iio/humidity/si7020.c +++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/si7020.c @@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ static int si7020_read_raw(struct iio_de struct iio_chan_spec const *chan, int *val, int *val2, long mask) { - struct i2c_client *client = iio_priv(indio_dev); + struct i2c_client **client = iio_priv(indio_dev); int ret; switch (mask) { case IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW: - ret = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(client, + ret = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(*client, chan->type == IIO_TEMP ? SI7020CMD_TEMP_HOLD : SI7020CMD_RH_HOLD);