[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: dapm: Check return value of snd_soc_cnew()

Lars-Peter Clausen lars at metafoo.de
Thu Aug 1 14:08:06 CEST 2013


snd_soc_cnew() can return NULL, so we should check the result before trying to
use it.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
---
 sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
index d74c356..b4fae87 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
@@ -671,8 +671,10 @@ static int dapm_create_or_share_mixmux_kcontrol(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w,
 
 		kcontrol = snd_soc_cnew(&w->kcontrol_news[kci], NULL, name,
 					prefix);
-		kcontrol->private_free = dapm_kcontrol_free;
 		kfree(long_name);
+		if (!kcontrol)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		kcontrol->private_free = dapm_kcontrol_free;
 
 		ret = dapm_kcontrol_data_alloc(w, kcontrol);
 		if (ret) {
-- 
1.8.0



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