It should be better to reverse the check on codec_dai and returned early in order to be easier to understand. Fixes: de2c6f98817f ("ASoC: soc-compress: prevent the potentially use of null pointer") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-compress.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-compress.c b/sound/soc/soc-compress.c index f4b376a71be8..e9dd25894dc0 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-compress.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-compress.c @@ -567,16 +567,19 @@ int snd_soc_new_compress(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd, int num) return -EINVAL; } - /* check client and interface hw capabilities */ - if (codec_dai) { - if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK) && - snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK)) - playback = 1; - if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE) && - snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)) - capture = 1; + if (!codec_dai) { + dev_err(rtd->card->dev, "Missing codec\n"); + return -EINVAL; } + /* check client and interface hw capabilities */ + if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK) && + snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK)) + playback = 1; + if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE) && + snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)) + capture = 1; + /* * Compress devices are unidirectional so only one of the directions * should be set, check for that (xor) -- 2.25.1