Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:29:15 +0530 | From | Sudip Mukherjee <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ALSA: ice1712: consider error value |
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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@vectorindia.org> > > --- > > 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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