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authorKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>2009-08-06 15:57:54 -0700
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-08-28 15:17:07 -0400
commite29b3ee3b005897fbdcfdd4b3190776e38739d70 (patch)
treecb27db40bc33117aebe3d60a7eef33317f9df5b0
parent82e7784f57a81faf673b09bc468e736d582fe754 (diff)
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ACPI: don't free non-existent backlight in acpi video module
acpi_video_put_one_device was attempting to remove sysfs entries and unregister a backlight device without first checking that said backlight device structure had been created. Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/video.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index 8851315..60ea984c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -2004,8 +2004,11 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_put_one_device(struct acpi_video_device *device)
status = acpi_remove_notify_handler(device->dev->handle,
ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
acpi_video_device_notify);
- sysfs_remove_link(&device->backlight->dev.kobj, "device");
- backlight_device_unregister(device->backlight);
+ if (device->backlight) {
+ sysfs_remove_link(&device->backlight->dev.kobj, "device");
+ backlight_device_unregister(device->backlight);
+ device->backlight = NULL;
+ }
if (device->cdev) {
sysfs_remove_link(&device->dev->dev.kobj,
"thermal_cooling");
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