Re: [PATCH 4.13 103/110] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Dont oops when FUJ02E3 is not presnt

[Jonathan Woithe]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:30:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

As per my earlier suggestion, I'm more than happy for this to go to stable
since it fixes a regression.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ------------------
> 
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit ce7c47d60bda6c7f09ccf16e978d971c8fa16ff0 upstream.
> 
> My Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6120 doesn't have the FUJ02E3 device,
> but it does have FUJ02B1. That means we do register the backlight
> device (and it even seems to work), but the code will oops as soon
> as we try to set the backlight brightness because it's trying to
> call call_fext_func() with a NULL device. Let's just skip those
> function calls when the FUJ02E3 device is not present.
> 
> Cc: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c |   10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> @@ -254,10 +254,12 @@ static int bl_update_status(struct backl
>  {
>  	struct acpi_device *device = bl_get_data(b);
>  
> -	if (b->props.power == FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN)
> -		call_fext_func(fext, FUNC_BACKLIGHT, 0x1, 0x4, 0x3);
> -	else
> -		call_fext_func(fext, FUNC_BACKLIGHT, 0x1, 0x4, 0x0);
> +	if (fext) {
> +		if (b->props.power == FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN)
> +			call_fext_func(fext, FUNC_BACKLIGHT, 0x1, 0x4, 0x3);
> +		else
> +			call_fext_func(fext, FUNC_BACKLIGHT, 0x1, 0x4, 0x0);
> +	}
>  
>  	return set_lcd_level(device, b->props.brightness);
>  }
>