[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Fix empty list check in dapm_new_mux()

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 06:30:38PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> list_first_entry() will always return a valid pointer, even if the list is
> empty. So the check whether path is NULL will always be false. So we end up
> calling dapm_create_or_share_mixmux_kcontrol() with a path struct that points
> right in the middle of the widget struct and by trying to modify the path the
> widgets memory will become corrupted. Fix this by using list_emtpy() to check if
> the widget doesn't have any paths.

Applied, thanks - looking at this I'm surprised we've not been running
into problems before.
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