[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: cs46xx: Potential NULL dereference in probe

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Tue Jan 8 09:03:26 CET 2019


On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:43:30 +0100,
Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> The "chip->dsp_spos_instance" can be NULL on some of the ealier error
> paths in snd_cs46xx_create().
> 
> Reported-by: "Yavuz, Tuba" <tuba at ece.ufl.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

Applied, thanks.

> ---
> We don't really consider NULL derefences as security bugs unless they
> can be triggered remotely, but it's definitely worth fixing.

Right, I put Cc-to-stable tag as well.


Takashi


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