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Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 3 May 2021 11:57:33 +0000 (13:57 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 26 May 2021 10:05:18 +0000 (12:05 +0200)
commita1f0e2bb497548360c27191ef4a5bf17ab9cc4d8
treec0e0df66ae39ae8a01e76c5a215cf518931cba50
parentbd2a12549fc2baabaee5864809d206cefb5bf0f1
Revert "video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences"

commit ed04fe8a0e87d7b5ea17d47f4ac9ec962b24814a upstream.

This reverts commit 1d84353d205a953e2381044953b7fa31c8c9702d.

Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all
commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were
correct or not.

Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons
below, so it must be reverted.  It will be fixed up "correctly" in a
later kernel change.

The original commit here, while technically correct, did not fully
handle all of the reported issues that the commit stated it was fixing,
so revert it until it can be "fixed" fully.

Note, ioremap() probably will never fail for old hardware like this, and
if anyone actually used this hardware (a PowerMac era PCI display card),
they would not be using fbdev anymore.

Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Cc: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Fixes: 1d84353d205a ("video: imsttfb: fix potential NULL pointer dereferences")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-67-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/video/fbdev/imsttfb.c