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

[Matthias Reichl]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 09:41:38PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 03:16:57PM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe the defer card probe logic needs to be extended to also check if
> > > dai_link_name had already been registered (either cpu or cpu_dai_name
> > > needs to be set), not 100% sure which problem the defer card probe patch
> > > was trying to solve.
> 
> We were getting cards probing without the platforms being registered
> (which in turn meant we were just skipping their init) and had patches
> proposed to implement the deferral in the cards.  The deferral stuff is
> supposed to making sure that everything is registered when we
> instantiate.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks a lot for the info!

so long,

Hias

> 
> > same here, I don't get why the deferred probe stuff only deals with one of
> > the two options.
> 
> I think it's just an oversight - I think the change you were proposing
> to check the cpu_dai_name is a good idea anyway as it makes things more
> consistent and work more obviously by intention.  And more generally if
> we can simplify the code by removing legacy options that'd be good but
> that's a bigger bit of work...