[alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: sb: fix a missing check of snd_ctl_add

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 02:45:32 +0100,
Kangjie Lu wrote:
> 
> snd_ctl_add() could fail, so let's check its return value and return its
> error code upstream upon failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu at umn.edu>
> ---
>  sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c
> index 37e6ce7b0b13..c9b25dc1f78e 100644
> --- a/sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c
> +++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb16_main.c
> @@ -879,8 +879,14 @@ int snd_sb16dsp_pcm(struct snd_sb *chip, int device)
>  	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &snd_sb16_playback_ops);
>  	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE, &snd_sb16_capture_ops);
>  
> -	if (chip->dma16 >= 0 && chip->dma8 != chip->dma16)
> -		snd_ctl_add(card, snd_ctl_new1(&snd_sb16_dma_control, chip));
> +	if (chip->dma16 >= 0 && chip->dma8 != chip->dma16) {
> +		err =
> +			snd_ctl_add(card,
> +					snd_ctl_new1(&snd_sb16_dma_control,
> +						chip));
> +		if (err < 0)
> +			return err;
> +	}
>  	else
>  		pcm->info_flags = SNDRV_PCM_INFO_HALF_DUPLEX;

The code change looks OK, but could you fix the indentation and avoid
unneeded line breaks, as well as the missing braces for else-block?

Also, we keep "ALSA:" prefix for the subject line (except for ASoC
ones).  Please align with it.


thanks,

Takashi