[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ALSA: hdac: Fix size allocation for ext device allocation

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Sun Aug 23 08:22:49 CEST 2015


While creating hdac_ext_device, we used hdev for sizeof insteadof
edev, which resulted in eventual crash of the system Fix the size
here

Fixes: a512f5611646 ('ALSA: hdac: add hdac extended device')
Reported-by: Subhransu S. Prusty <subhransu.s.prusty at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
---
 sound/hda/ext/hdac_ext_bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/hda/ext/hdac_ext_bus.c b/sound/hda/ext/hdac_ext_bus.c
index 8544e4fb1cd3..4449d1a99089 100644
--- a/sound/hda/ext/hdac_ext_bus.c
+++ b/sound/hda/ext/hdac_ext_bus.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int snd_hdac_ext_bus_device_init(struct hdac_ext_bus *ebus, int addr)
 	char name[15];
 	int ret;
 
-	edev = kzalloc(sizeof(*hdev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	edev = kzalloc(sizeof(*edev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!edev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	hdev = &edev->hdac;
-- 
1.9.1



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