Re: [PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.9

[Greg KH]

ChangeSet 1.1992, 2004/09/29 16:28:06-07:00, hare@xxxxxxx

[PATCH] Driver Core: Handle NULL arg for put_device()

Since get_device() accepts a NULL argument, put_device() should do so, too.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@xxxxxxxxx>


 drivers/base/core.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff -Nru a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
--- a/drivers/base/core.c	2004-10-19 09:20:41 -07:00
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c	2004-10-19 09:20:41 -07:00
@@ -293,7 +293,8 @@
  */
 void put_device(struct device * dev)
 {
-	kobject_put(&dev->kobj);
+	if (dev)
+		kobject_put(&dev->kobj);
 }
 
 

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