[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: hdac_hdmi: fix possible NULL dereference

[Sudip Mukherjee]

kzalloc() can return NULL if it fails, and then we will be dereferencing
a NULL pointer.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip at vectorindia.org>
---
 sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c b/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
index d155262..205f2c2 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ static int hdac_hdmi_set_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	}
 
 	dd = kzalloc(sizeof(*dd), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!dd)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	dd->format = snd_hdac_calc_stream_format(params_rate(hparams),
 			params_channels(hparams), params_format(hparams),
 			24, 0);
-- 
1.9.1