The patch 955ac624058f: "ASoC: fsl_easrc: Add EASRC ASoC CPU DAI drivers" from Apr 16, 2020, leads to the following Smatch complaint: sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c:1529 fsl_easrc_hw_free() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'ctx' (see line 1527) sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c 1526 struct fsl_asrc_pair *ctx = runtime->private_data; 1527 struct fsl_easrc_ctx_priv *ctx_priv = ctx->private; ^^^^^ Dereference 1528 1529 if (ctx && (ctx_priv->ctx_streams & BIT(substream->stream))) { ^^^ This check is too late, to prevent a NULL dereference. 1530 ctx_priv->ctx_streams &= ~BIT(substream->stream); 1531 fsl_easrc_release_context(ctx); Fixes: 955ac624058f ("ASoC: fsl_easrc: Add EASRC ASoC CPU DAI drivers") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c b/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c index 97658e1f4989..20326bffab64 100644 --- a/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c +++ b/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c @@ -1524,9 +1524,14 @@ static int fsl_easrc_hw_free(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, { struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime; struct fsl_asrc_pair *ctx = runtime->private_data; - struct fsl_easrc_ctx_priv *ctx_priv = ctx->private; + struct fsl_easrc_ctx_priv *ctx_priv; + + if (!ctx) + return -EINVAL; + + ctx_priv = ctx->private; - if (ctx && (ctx_priv->ctx_streams & BIT(substream->stream))) { + if (ctx_priv->ctx_streams & BIT(substream->stream)) { ctx_priv->ctx_streams &= ~BIT(substream->stream); fsl_easrc_release_context(ctx); } -- 2.21.0