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authorYu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com>2005-11-19 15:53:56 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2005-12-26 16:08:56 -0800
commit6968ecfca8822055cfe121214c0786e4eecc038e (patch)
treebb6f3c6d655c0eb6576a75ed5f3469136c21c9fa
parentb72c1d0c14634506a2ff740033ab1bda3c3d5d7f (diff)
[PATCH] apci: fix NULL deref in video/lcd/brightness
Fix Null pointer deref in video/lcd/brightness http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5571 Signed-off-by: Yu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/video.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index e383d6109ae1..00fe1cd6505a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ acpi_video_device_write_brightness(struct file *file,
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))