From fb6de923ca3358a91525552b4907d4cb38730bdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:30:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] regulator: fix crash caused by null driver data
Git-commit: fb6de923ca3358a91525552b4907d4cb38730bdd
Patch-mainline: v4.19-rc6
References: bsc#1051510
dev_set_drvdata() needs to be called before device_register()
exposes device to userspace. Otherwise kernel crashes after it
gets null pointer from dev_get_drvdata() when userspace tries
to access sysfs entries.
[Removed backtrace for length -- broonie]
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/regulator/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 90215f57270f..9577d8941846 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -4395,13 +4395,13 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
!rdev->desc->fixed_uV)
rdev->is_switch = true;
+ dev_set_drvdata(&rdev->dev, rdev);
ret = device_register(&rdev->dev);
if (ret != 0) {
put_device(&rdev->dev);
goto unset_supplies;
}
- dev_set_drvdata(&rdev->dev, rdev);
rdev_init_debugfs(rdev);
/* try to resolve regulators supply since a new one was registered */
--
2.18.0