At Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:47:54 +0200, walter harms wrote:
Am 21.09.2012 13:46, schrieb Takashi Iwai:
At Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:22:42 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
Hi Ian,
FYI, there are new smatch warnings show up in
commit 0b37d4c7982442730061a737c16939e8cc363861 Author: Ian Minett ian_minett@creativelabs.com Commit: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de CommitDate: Fri Sep 21 09:54:29 2012 +0200
- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c:2056 dspxfr_image() error: potential null dereference 'dma_engine'. (kzalloc returns null)
- sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c:2056 dspxfr_image() error: we previously assumed 'dma_engine' could be null (see line 1963)
Fixed with the patch below. Thanks!
Takashi
=== Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Fix NULL dereference in error path of patch_ca0132.c
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de
sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c index 5c6a056..03f57c9 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c @@ -1960,10 +1960,8 @@ static int dspxfr_image(struct hda_codec *codec, return -EINVAL;
dma_engine = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma_engine), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dma_engine) {
status = -ENOMEM;goto exit;- }
- if (!dma_engine)
return -ENOMEM;Why do you need that memset() ? kzalloc() should fill the buffer with 0.
True.
Takashi