linux-kernel - [PATCH] sound: cs43130: fix a NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:51:20 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Brian Austin <brian.austin@...rus.com>,
        Paul Handrigan <Paul.Handrigan@...rus.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sound: cs43130: fix a NULL pointer dereference

In case create_singlethread_workqueue fails, the fix returns
-ENOMEM to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 sound/soc/codecs/cs43130.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/cs43130.c b/sound/soc/codecs/cs43130.c
index 3f7b255587e6..80d672710eae 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/cs43130.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/cs43130.c
@@ -2322,6 +2322,8 @@ static int cs43130_probe(struct snd_soc_component *component)
 			return ret;
 
 		cs43130->wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("cs43130_hp");
+		if (!cs43130->wq)
+			return -ENOMEM;
 		INIT_WORK(&cs43130->work, cs43130_imp_meas);
 	}
 
-- 
2.17.1