Re: [patch] fix oops with no /proc

Hi,

nice catch. Your patch is obviously correct.
Please send it to Andrew Morton <[email protected]> to get it 
into mainline.

Dan Carpenter schrieb:
> Fixed a typo:  missing *.  This would lead to a kernel oops if the kernel
> was compiled without support for the /proc file system.
> 
> Found with a static checker.  Compile tested.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <[email protected]>
> 
> --- orig/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c	2009-11-21 14:44:33.000000000 +0200
> +++ devel/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c	2009-11-21 14:44:43.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ static const struct file_operations viaf
>  static void viafb_init_proc(struct proc_dir_entry **viafb_entry)
>  {
>  	*viafb_entry = proc_mkdir("viafb", NULL);
> -	if (viafb_entry) {
> +	if (*viafb_entry) {

Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

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