ALSA: usb - driver neglects kmalloc return value check and may deref NULL
sound/usb/pcm.c::snd_usb_pcm_check_knot() fails to check the return value
from kmalloc() and may end up dereferencing a null pointer.
The patch below (compile tested only) should take care of that little
problem.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
diff --git a/sound/usb/pcm.c b/sound/usb/pcm.c
index cff3a3c..4132522 100644
--- a/sound/usb/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/pcm.c
@@ -676,8 +676,10 @@
if (!needs_knot)
return 0;
- subs->rate_list.count = count;
subs->rate_list.list = kmalloc(sizeof(int) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!subs->rate_list.list)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ subs->rate_list.count = count;
subs->rate_list.mask = 0;
count = 0;
list_for_each_entry(fp, &subs->fmt_list, list) {