Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: fix uninitialized pointer use

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Thu Apr 27 2017 - 10:26:34 EST


On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:59:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The error handling in bxt_sst_dsp_init() got changed in a way that
> it now derefences an uninitialized pointer when printing a warning
> about the device not being found:
>
> sound/soc/intel/skylake/bxt-sst.c: In function 'bxt_sst_dsp_init':
> sound/soc/intel/skylake/bxt-sst.c:567:14: error: 'skl' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> As we do have a valid device pointer available at the call site,
> let's use that instead.

Thanks Arnd for this fix, but this was also reported by SFR earlier today
and have pasoted same patch via
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2017-April/120214.html

Patches are same, so Mark can take either :)

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~Vinod