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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] gpiolib: check descriptors validity before use
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
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On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:46:14 +0900, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
> Some functions dereferenced their GPIO descriptor argument without
> checking its validity first, potentially leading to an oops when given
> an invalid argument.
> 
> This patch also makes gpio_get_value() more resilient when given an
> invalid GPIO, returning 0 instead of silently crashing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.

g.