[alsa-devel] ALSA: echoaudio: remove all snd_printk

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 18:11:52 CET 2014


On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 05:15:20PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 4 Nov 2014 19:01:56 +0300,
> Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > 
> > Hello Sudip Mukherjee,
> > 
> > The patch b5b4a41b3929: "ALSA: echoaudio: remove all snd_printk" from
> > Nov 3, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning:
> > 
> > 	sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c:1908 snd_echo_free()
> > 	error: dereferencing freed memory 'chip'
> > 
> > sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c
> >   1905          /* release chip data */
> >   1906          free_firmware_cache(chip);
> >   1907          kfree(chip);
> >                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   1908          dev_dbg(chip->card->dev, "Chip freed.\n");
> >                         ^^^^^^^^^^

oops , missed it. sorry.

> > 
> > We have lots of printks in this function.  We could just delete them all
> > and no one would care.  These days you can get the same information from
> > ftrace.
> 
> Yep, maybe it's a wiser choice.  Sudip, care to send a clean up patch?
> 
sure. i have alredy started. cleanup like Joe Perches suggested from all the functions.

thanks
sudip

> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi


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