From e29b3ee3b005897fbdcfdd4b3190776e38739d70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Packard Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 15:57:54 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/acpi') diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index 8851315ce858..60ea984c84a0 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"); -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151