[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in snd_soc_dapm_new_dai

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:41:25PM +0530, Pankaj Bharadiya wrote:

>  outfree_kcontrol_news:
>  	devm_kfree(card->dev, (void *)template.kcontrol_news);
> -	snd_soc_dapm_free_kcontrol(card, &private_value,
> -				   rtd->dai_link->num_params, w_param_text);
> +	if (w_param_text)
> +		snd_soc_dapm_free_kcontrol(card, &private_value,
> +				rtd->dai_link->num_params, w_param_text);

This is very non-obvious - it's not at all clear why we'd need the text
to free controls.  If there is an issue here it seems like it'd be
better to make sure that snd_soc_dapm_free_kcontrol() can cope with that
being NULL, that will be clearer and also avoid potential issues with
other callers.
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