APPLIED: [Precise][SRU][PATCH 0/2] HID: wiimote: fix invalid power_supply_powers call

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Sep 11 15:00:06 UTC 2012


On 09/11/2012 08:15 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048605
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> 
> When pairing a wiimote on 12.04, a NULL pointer dereference in the
> kernel will occur, preventing the usage of this h/w. 
> 
> == Fix ==
> 
> The problem is that the upstream commit
> 217c8b2b1978aa4a02ce040a99c59ed3b6418fe5 has been only partially
> cherry-picked in Precise by commit
> ed326b8c4c653ce643f1cade74cd76c538170b64.
> 
> This fix reverts this partial application and cherry-picks the commit
> again.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> 
> This issue can be reproduced by pressing 1+2 on the wiimote and
> connecting to the device from gnome-bluetooth.  The result will be a
> NULL pointer dereference in the kernel.
> 
> Jiri Kosina (1):
>   HID: wiimote: fix invalid power_supply_powers call
> 
> Luis Henriques (1):
>   Revert "HID: wiimote: fix invalid power_supply_powers call"
> 
>  drivers/hid/hid-wiimote.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 

How strange that the original cherry-pick was corrupted.
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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