Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: Fix null pointer dereference in soc_find_component

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 05:15:32PM -0800, Curtis Malainey wrote:

> of_node was never getting set but the pointer was becoming populated
> (outside of the probe call) which traced to soc_init_platform function
> which was not reallocating memory on a EPROBE_DEFER even though it was
> getting freed by devm. I am not very familiar with devm but my local
> maintainers say that it should be freeing the memory even on a
> PROBE_DEFER.

Probe deferral is just like any other error from probe, any managed
resources will be unwound.

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