Topology can be created without ops overrides, in that case trying to assign any value would lead to dereferencing NULL pointer. Other places in code have either checks for tplg->ops or loop using *_count variables, hence they can't dereference NULL pointer and there is no need to add more checks. Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Sławiński <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-topology.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-topology.c b/sound/soc/soc-topology.c index 0d182a190c98..5476854c12b0 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-topology.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-topology.c @@ -2674,11 +2674,13 @@ int snd_soc_tplg_component_load(struct snd_soc_component *comp, tplg.fw = fw; tplg.dev = comp->dev; tplg.comp = comp; - tplg.ops = ops; - tplg.io_ops = ops->io_ops; - tplg.io_ops_count = ops->io_ops_count; - tplg.bytes_ext_ops = ops->bytes_ext_ops; - tplg.bytes_ext_ops_count = ops->bytes_ext_ops_count; + if (ops) { + tplg.ops = ops; + tplg.io_ops = ops->io_ops; + tplg.io_ops_count = ops->io_ops_count; + tplg.bytes_ext_ops = ops->bytes_ext_ops; + tplg.bytes_ext_ops_count = ops->bytes_ext_ops_count; + } ret = soc_tplg_load(&tplg); /* free the created components if fail to load topology */ -- 2.25.1