linux-kernel - [PATCH] sound: sb8: add a check for request

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Message-Id: <20190315040415.30631-1-kjlu@umn.edu>
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:04:14 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sound: sb8: add a check for request_region

In case request_region fails, the fix returns an error code to
avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
index aa2a83eb81a9..dc27a480c2d9 100644
--- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
+++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ static int snd_sb8_probe(struct device *pdev, unsigned int dev)
 
 	/* block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts */
 	acard->fm_res = request_region(0x388, 4, "SoundBlaster FM");
+	if (!acard->fm_res) {
+		err = -EBUSY;
+		goto _err;
+	}
 
 	if (port[dev] != SNDRV_AUTO_PORT) {
 		if ((err = snd_sbdsp_create(card, port[dev], irq[dev],
-- 
2.17.1