[PATCH] fbdev: Fix crashes in various fbdev's blank routines

[PATCH] fbdev: Fix crashes in various fbdev's blank routines

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

The backlight changes that went in 2.6.18 had a bug where they could
cause the kernel to access an unitialized pointer when blanking if there
is no backlight control on a machine. The bug affects atyfb, aty128fb,
nvidiafb and rivafb. radeonfb seems to be ok. This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---

This is a 2.6.18 regression, please merge before release ! It breaks a
number of non-laptop powermacs (among others I suppose).

Index: linux-work/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c	2006-08-17 09:26:21.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c	2006-08-31 13:56:11.000000000 +1000
@@ -1800,6 +1800,9 @@ static struct backlight_properties aty12
 
 static void aty128_bl_set_power(struct fb_info *info, int power)
 {
+	if (info->bl_dev == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	mutex_lock(&info->bl_mutex);
 	up(&info->bl_dev->sem);
 	info->bl_dev->props->power = power;
@@ -1828,7 +1831,7 @@ static void aty128_bl_init(struct aty128
 	bd = backlight_device_register(name, par, &aty128_bl_data);
 	if (IS_ERR(bd)) {
 		info->bl_dev = NULL;
-		printk("aty128: Backlight registration failed\n");
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "aty128: Backlight registration failed\n");
 		goto error;
 	}
 
Index: linux-work/drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c	2006-08-17 09:26:21.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c	2006-08-31 13:55:43.000000000 +1000
@@ -2199,6 +2199,9 @@ static struct backlight_properties aty_b
 
 static void aty_bl_set_power(struct fb_info *info, int power)
 {
+	if (info->bl_dev == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	mutex_lock(&info->bl_mutex);
 	up(&info->bl_dev->sem);
 	info->bl_dev->props->power = power;
@@ -2223,7 +2226,7 @@ static void aty_bl_init(struct atyfb_par
 	bd = backlight_device_register(name, par, &aty_bl_data);
 	if (IS_ERR(bd)) {
 		info->bl_dev = NULL;
-		printk("aty: Backlight registration failed\n");
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "aty: Backlight registration failed\n");
 		goto error;
 	}
 
Index: linux-work/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_backlight.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_backlight.c	2006-08-17 09:26:22.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/drivers/video/nvidia/nv_backlight.c	2006-08-31 13:58:47.000000000 +1000
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ static struct backlight_properties nvidi
 
 void nvidia_bl_set_power(struct fb_info *info, int power)
 {
+	if (info->bl_dev == NULL)
+		return;
 	mutex_lock(&info->bl_mutex);
 	up(&info->bl_dev->sem);
 	info->bl_dev->props->power = power;
@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ void nvidia_bl_init(struct nvidia_par *p
 	bd = backlight_device_register(name, par, &nvidia_bl_data);
 	if (IS_ERR(bd)) {
 		info->bl_dev = NULL;
-		printk("nvidia: Backlight registration failed\n");
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "nvidia: Backlight registration failed\n");
 		goto error;
 	}
 
Index: linux-work/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c	2006-08-17 09:26:22.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/drivers/video/riva/fbdev.c	2006-08-31 13:58:49.000000000 +1000
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ static struct backlight_properties riva_
 
 static void riva_bl_set_power(struct fb_info *info, int power)
 {
+	if (info->bl_dev == NULL)
+		return;
+
 	mutex_lock(&info->bl_mutex);
 	up(&info->bl_dev->sem);
 	info->bl_dev->props->power = power;
@@ -382,7 +385,7 @@ static void riva_bl_init(struct riva_par
 	bd = backlight_device_register(name, par, &riva_bl_data);
 	if (IS_ERR(bd)) {
 		info->bl_dev = NULL;
-		printk("riva: Backlight registration failed\n");
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "riva: Backlight registration failed\n");
 		goto error;
 	}
 



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