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Revert "video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference"

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This reverts commit ec7f6aad57.

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.

This patch "looks" correct, but the driver keeps on running and will
fail horribly right afterward if this error condition ever trips.

So points for trying to resolve an issue, but a huge NEGATIVE value for
providing a "fake" fix for the problem as nothing actually got resolved
at all.  I'll go fix this up properly...

Cc: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Cc: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Cc: Ferenc Bakonyi <fero@drama.obuda.kando.hu>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Fixes: ec7f6aad57 ("video: hgafb: fix potential NULL pointer dereference")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-39-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman 2021-05-03 13:57:05 +02:00
parent 4667a6fc17
commit 58c0cc2d90
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drivers/video/fbdev/hgafb.c
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@ -285,8 +285,6 @@ static int hga_card_detect(void)
hga_vram_len = 0x08000;
hga_vram = ioremap(0xb0000, hga_vram_len);
if (!hga_vram)
goto error;
if (request_region(0x3b0, 12, "hgafb"))
release_io_ports = 1;