[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 29/62] Revert "ASoC: rt5645: fix a NULL pointer dereference"

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Wed May 26 02:58:03 CEST 2021


On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:00:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:47:10AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>> Lots of things seem to be still allocated here and must be properly
>> cleaned up if an error happens here.
>
>That's not true, the core already has cleanup for everything else
>(as the followup patch in your series identified, though it was a
>bit confused as to how).
>
>>  		RT5645_HWEQ_NUM, sizeof(struct rt5645_eq_param_s),
>>  		GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> -	if (!rt5645->eq_param)
>> -		return -ENOMEM;
>> -
>
>Without the followup patch (which I don't think is suitable for
>stable) this will just remove error checking.  It's not likely to
>happen and hence make a difference but on the other hand it
>introduces a problem, especially when backported in isolation.

I'll drop this and the follow up patch, thanks.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha


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