[alsa-devel] ALSA: emu10k1: Use standard printk helpers

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Wed Mar 5 12:11:23 CET 2014


At Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:05:09 +0300,
Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> Hello Takashi Iwai,
> 
> The patch 6f002b02166c: "ALSA: emu10k1: Use standard printk helpers"
> from Feb 25, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	sound/pci/emu10k1/io.c:75 snd_emu10k1_ptr_write()
> 	error: we previously assumed 'emu' could be null (see line 74)
> 
> sound/pci/emu10k1/io.c
>     68  void snd_emu10k1_ptr_write(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu, unsigned int reg, unsigned int chn, unsigned int data)
>     69  {
>     70          unsigned int regptr;
>     71          unsigned long flags;
>     72          unsigned int mask;
>     73  
>     74          if (!emu) {
>                     ^^^^
>     75                  dev_err(emu->card->dev, "ptr_write: emu is null!\n");
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Dereference.
> 
>     76                  dump_stack();
>     77                  return;

Damn, this should be simply converted to WARN_ON().
I'll fix it.


thanks,

Takashi


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