Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:09:48 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in snd_soc_dapm_new_dai |
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:59:55AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > On 3/21/19 7:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 03:41:25PM +0530, Pankaj Bharadiya wrote:
> > 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.
> I believe the issue is real, but you need to look at the entire code to figure it out
Yeah, I'm fairly sure there's an actual issue here - it's just that the fix is obscure and feels fragile. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |