Re: [PATCH] max8907: fix use of possibly NULL idata

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:55 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/23/2012 12:19 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Laxman,
>
> The TPS6586x driver avoids this NULL-dereference issue by simply not
> registering any regulators when idata is NULL. See
> drivers/mfd/tps6586x.c:tps6586x_parse_dt():
>
> >          for (i = 0, j = 0; i<  num&&  j<  count; i++) {
> >                  struct regulator_init_data *reg_idata;
> >
> >                  if (!tps6586x_matches[i].init_data)
> >                          continue;
> If I interpreted Mark Brown correctly, this isn't correct; all the
> regulators within the chip should always be registered, just without any
> user-supplied constraints. Assuming I didn't misinterpret Mark, can you
> please fix the TPS6586x driver to always register the regulators, and
> apply the fix below. Could you please check the TPS65911 driver and see
> what the status is there too? Thanks very much!

Sure, I will check it.

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