Bug#513406: Possible oops during eeepc-laptop module init; kills ACPI hotkeys
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-1
Forwarded: corentincj@iksaif.net, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Tags: patch
I was adjusting my EeePC 901's display brightness via Fn-F3 while it was
starting up. By coincidence, it happened to be initialising the eeepc-laptop
module, and an oops was logged. Investigation pointed to a NULL dereference;
a case of use-before-init.
(I'm using 2.6.28.1 with eeepc-laptop compiled in, but inspection of the
2.6.26 source indicates that the problem is there too.)
Patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/28/262
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