From 6968ecfca8822055cfe121214c0786e4eecc038e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:53:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] apci: fix NULL deref in video/lcd/brightness

Fix Null pointer deref in video/lcd/brightness
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5571

Signed-off-by: Yu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/video.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index e383d6109ae10..00fe1cd6505ae 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ acpi_video_device_write_brightness(struct file *file,
 
 	ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE("acpi_video_device_write_brightness");
 
-	if (!dev || count + 1 > sizeof str)
+	if (!dev || !dev->brightness || count + 1 > sizeof str)
 		return_VALUE(-EINVAL);
 
 	if (copy_from_user(str, buffer, count))
-- 
2.47.2