On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 12:45:09PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> backlight_update_status() may be called from code that does not have
> any valid backlight device. To avoid ifdeffery and too much conditionals
> silently fail if the backlight_device is NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <s...@ravnborg.org>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Jingoo Han <jingooh...@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>


> ---
>  include/linux/backlight.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
> index 614653e07e3a..190963ffb7fc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backlight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
> @@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ static inline int backlight_update_status(struct 
> backlight_device *bd)
>  {
>       int ret = -ENOENT;
>  
> +     if (!bd)
> +             return 0;
> +
>       mutex_lock(&bd->update_lock);
>       if (bd->ops && bd->ops->update_status)
>               ret = bd->ops->update_status(bd);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
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