Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/ca0132 - fix possible NULL pointer use

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 11:26:49 EST


On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:39:44 +0100,
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> gcc-7 caught what it considers a NULL pointer dereference:
>
> sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c: In function 'dspio_scp.constprop':
> sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.c:1487:4: error: argument 1 null where non-null expected [-Werror=nonnull]
>
> This is plausible from looking at the function, as we compare 'reply'
> to NULL earlier in it. I have not tried to analyze if there are constraints
> that make it impossible to hit the bug, but adding another NULL check in
> the end kills the warning and makes the function more robust.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.


Takashi