[alsa-devel] [BUG] NULL pointer dereference in patch_sigmatel.c

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:33:08 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:51:50 +0300,
> Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One of our users is having a NULL ptr dereference upon loading the
> > snd_hda_intel module with 20090624's snapshot. There's only one commit
> > after that date in patch_sigmatel.c so I didn't tell him to try with the
> > latest snapshot but if you think that the bug may be related to another
> > part of the ALSA codebase, I can make him try the latest snapshot.
> 
> I suppose you are using unstable tree, right?

Looking through the stack trace, it's not...

But, I don't see any problem in the current code.  It could be a bug
in the wrapper for older kernels.  Anyway, checking with the very latest
snapshot would be helpful.


Takashi