Re: [PATCH] ALSA: jack: Check the return value of kstrdup()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Dec 12 2021 - 00:44:47 EST


On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 01:13 +0800, xkernel wrote:
> kstrdup() can return NULL, it is better to check the return value of it.
[]
> diff --git a/sound/core/jack.c b/sound/core/jack.c
[]
> @@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ int snd_jack_new(struct snd_card *card, const char *id, int type,
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> jack->id = kstrdup(id, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (jack->id == NULL)
> + return -ENOMEM;

jack should be freed too.

if (!jack->id) {
kfree(jack);
return -ENOMEM;
}

>
> /* don't creat input device for phantom jack */
> if (!phantom_jack) {