[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: rsnd: fix a possible NULL dereference

[LABBE Corentin]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:46:45PM +0000, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> 
> Hi LABBE
> 
> Thank you for your patch
> 
> > of_match_device could return NULL, and so cause a NULL pointer
> > dereference later.
> > Even if the probability of this case is very low, fixing it made
> > static analyzers happy.
> > Solving this with of_device_get_match_data made also code simplier.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c b/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c
> > index deed48e..54cc44c 100644
> > --- a/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c
> > +++ b/sound/soc/sh/rcar/core.c
> > @@ -1204,7 +1204,6 @@ static int rsnd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	struct rsnd_priv *priv;
> >  	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> >  	struct rsnd_dai *rdai;
> > -	const struct of_device_id *of_id = of_match_device(rsnd_of_match, dev);
> >  	const struct rsnd_of_data *of_data;
> >  	int (*probe_func[])(struct platform_device *pdev,
> >  			    const struct rsnd_of_data *of_data,
> > @@ -1221,11 +1220,13 @@ static int rsnd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	};
> >  	int ret, i;
> >  
> > +	of_data = of_device_get_match_data(dev);
> > +	if (!of_data)
> > +		return 1;
> 
> return 1 ?
> You want to use -EINVAL ?
> 

I do that Uwe Kleine-König said to me to do in others thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/12/70 and https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/16/211

Regards