[alsa-devel] [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: dapm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Sun Dec 2 05:14:34 CET 2012


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:36:59PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:

>  		if (!w) {
>  			dev_err(dapm->dev, "Failed to create %s widget\n",
>  				dai->driver->playback.stream_name);
> +		} else {
> +			w->priv = dai;
>  		}

This isn't a particularly sensible fix, we should be erroring out or
something rather than limping along with the rest of the function.
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