[alsa-devel] [PATCH RESEND V2] ALSA: hda: fix possible NULL dereference

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Aug 24 15:04:34 CEST 2015


On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:11:39 +0200,
Markus Osterhoff wrote:
> 
> After a for-loop was replaced by list_for_each_entry, see
> Commit bbbc7e8502c9 ("ALSA: hda - Allocate hda_pcm objects dynamically"),
> Commit 751e2216899c ("ALSA: hda: fix possible null dereference"),
> a possible NULL pointer dereference has been introduced; this patch adds
> the NULL check on pcm->pcm, while leaving a potentially superfluous
> check on pcm itself untouched.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Osterhoff <linux-kernel at k-raum.org>

The patch couldn't be applied cleanly because the tabs are replaced
wrongly with spaces, so I applied it manually now.  Please fix your
MUA or the way to create a patch at the next time.


thanks,


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> index 5de3c5d..d1a2cb6 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> @@ -3172,7 +3172,7 @@ static int add_std_chmaps(struct hda_codec *codec)
>                         struct snd_pcm_chmap *chmap;
>                         const struct snd_pcm_chmap_elem *elem;
>  
> -                       if (!pcm || pcm->own_chmap ||
> +                       if (!pcm || !pcm->pcm || pcm->own_chmap ||
>                             !hinfo->substreams)
>                                 continue;
>                         elem = hinfo->chmap ? hinfo->chmap : snd_pcm_std_chmaps;
> 


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