[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: sst-acpi: Fix Oops in case of missing firmware

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:37 +0200, Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> I swear I tested missing firmware in commit e5161d7987f1 ("ASoC: Intel:
> sst-acpi: Request firmware before SST platform driver probing").
> 
> Unfortunately same wasn't done in commit 6dda27cbbd1d ("ASoC: Intel:
> sst-acpi: Add support for multiple machine drivers per platform") which
> will cause NULL pointer dereference in sst_acpi_fw_cb() when printing the
> error since sst_acpi->mach is not set.
> 
> Fix this obvious error by setting the sst_acpi->mach in sst_acpi_probe().

FWIW, I did test with the patch set from lrg's tree as of a couple days
ago, and hit this crash. So I can confirm the bug for sure. I'll test
the fix with a new kernel build in a couple of hours.
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