[15/50] V4L: cx88: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference duringmpeg_open()

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 12:30:22 EST



From: Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(cherry picked from commit 48200baeab95fd39a7f4c4f3536c7142a64ac335)

[PATCH] V4L: cx88: Avoid a NULL pointer dereference during mpeg_open()

Bug: With a hardware encoder board installed as cx88[1] and a
non-encoder boards installed as cx88[0], an OOPS is generated
during cx8802_get_device() called from mpeg_open().

Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-mpeg.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-mpeg.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-mpeg.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ struct cx8802_dev * cx8802_get_device(st

list_for_each(list,&cx8802_devlist) {
h = list_entry(list, struct cx8802_dev, devlist);
- if (h->mpeg_dev->minor == minor)
+ if (h->mpeg_dev && h->mpeg_dev->minor == minor)
return h;
}


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