Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ALSA: ice1712: consider error value

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Fri Nov 14 2014 - 05:59:31 EST


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:43:31AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:09:06 +0530,
> Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >
> > earlier we were ignoring the return value of snd_ak4114_create and
> > always returning 0.
> > now we are returning the actual status. revo_init is calling this
> > function, and revo_init is checking the return value.
>
> It's not enough only to change there. The problem is that
> spec->ak4114 is dereferenced after snd_ak4114_create(), and this might
> be NULL. So it should return the error before that point.
>

oops .. i should have looked carefully.

one more thought:
shouldn't we also do a kfree(spec) on error ?

thanks
sudip

>
> Takashi
>
>
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c b/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c
> > index 1112ec1..2835196 100644
> > --- a/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c
> > +++ b/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c
> > @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static int ap192_ak4114_init(struct snd_ice1712 *ice)
> > * No reason to stop capture stream due to incorrect checks */
> > spec->ak4114->check_flags = AK4114_CHECK_NO_RATE;
> >
> > - return 0; /* error ignored; it's no fatal error */
> > + return err;
> > }
> >
> > static int revo_init(struct snd_ice1712 *ice)
> > --
> > 1.8.1.2
> >
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