Because of the potential failure of the devm_kstrdup(), the dl[i].codecs->name could be NULL. Therefore, we need to check it and return -ENOMEM in order to transfer the error. Fixes: 97030a43371e ("ASoC: Intel: avs: Add HDAudio machine board") Signed-off-by: Chen Ni <nichen@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/intel/avs/boards/hdaudio.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/avs/boards/hdaudio.c b/sound/soc/intel/avs/boards/hdaudio.c index cb00bc86ac94..8876558f19a1 100644 --- a/sound/soc/intel/avs/boards/hdaudio.c +++ b/sound/soc/intel/avs/boards/hdaudio.c @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ static int avs_create_dai_links(struct device *dev, struct hda_codec *codec, int return -ENOMEM; dl[i].codecs->name = devm_kstrdup(dev, cname, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!dl[i].codecs->name) + return -ENOMEM; + dl[i].codecs->dai_name = pcm->name; dl[i].num_codecs = 1; dl[i].num_cpus = 1; -- 2.25.1