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; memset((void *)dma_engine, 0, sizeof(*dma_engine));

dma_engine->dmab = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma_engine->dmab), GFP_KERNEL);