If the pipeline setup fails at the first widget/pipeline then we will have no spipe stored under the pipeline_list->pipelines, the pipeline_list->count is 0. If this is the case we would have a NULL pointer dereference if the execution is allowed to proceed. Check for this condition along with the pipeline_list->pipelines check Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/sof/ipc4-pcm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/ipc4-pcm.c b/sound/soc/sof/ipc4-pcm.c index 2d89d3708ed0..521090d4498d 100644 --- a/sound/soc/sof/ipc4-pcm.c +++ b/sound/soc/sof/ipc4-pcm.c @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static int sof_ipc4_trigger_pipelines(struct snd_soc_component *component, pipeline_list = &spcm->stream[substream->stream].pipeline_list; /* nothing to trigger if the list is empty */ - if (!pipeline_list->pipelines) + if (!pipeline_list->pipelines || !pipeline_list->count) return 0; /* allocate memory for the pipeline data */ -- 2.39.1