The driver always checks for pdata being NULL expect in one place.
Add a check to prevent a possible NULL pointer deference error.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>

---

 drivers/mfd/wm831x-core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/wm831x-core.c b/drivers/mfd/wm831x-core.c
index 28366a90e1ad..3e0e99ec5836 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/wm831x-core.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/wm831x-core.c
@@ -1626,7 +1626,9 @@ int wm831x_device_init(struct wm831x *wm831x, unsigned 
long id, int irq)
        mutex_init(&wm831x->io_lock);
        mutex_init(&wm831x->key_lock);
        dev_set_drvdata(wm831x->dev, wm831x);
-       wm831x->soft_shutdown = pdata->soft_shutdown;
+
+       if (pdata)
+               wm831x->soft_shutdown = pdata->soft_shutdown;
 
        ret = wm831x_reg_read(wm831x, WM831X_PARENT_ID);
        if (ret < 0) {
-- 
2.4.3

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