Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: dapm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:36:59PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:

if (!w) {
	dev_err(dapm->dev, "Failed to create %s widget\n",
		dai->driver->playback.stream_name);

• } else {
  

• 	w->priv = dai;
  

  }

This isn't a particularly sensible fix, we should be erroring out or something rather than limping along with the rest of the function.