With commit aebb2b89bff0 ("[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share media resources") an access to quirk->media_device without checking for quirk != NULL has been introduced in usb_audio_probe(). With a Plantronics USB headset (device ID 0x047f:0xc010) attached, this results in the following splat at boot time: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000014 IP: [<ffffffffa089aa6c>] usb_audio_probe+0x2cc/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [...] CPU: 2 PID: 696 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.5.0-next-20160315 #13 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6540/0725FP, BIOS A10 06/26/2014 task: ffff88021c88d7c0 ti: ffff88003d5b0000 task.ti: ffff88003d5b0000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa089aa6c>] [<ffffffffa089aa6c>] usb_audio_probe+0x2cc/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio] [...] Call Trace: [<ffffffff815a8e16>] usb_probe_interface+0x136/0x2d0 [<ffffffff81509edc>] driver_probe_device+0x22c/0x440 [<ffffffff8150a1c1>] __driver_attach+0xd1/0xf0 [<ffffffff8150a0f0>] ? driver_probe_device+0x440/0x440 [<ffffffff815077ec>] bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0xc0 [<ffffffff815095ce>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20 [<ffffffff81509013>] bus_add_driver+0x1c3/0x280 [<ffffffff8150ab10>] driver_register+0x60/0xe0 [<ffffffff815a7711>] usb_register_driver+0x81/0x140 [<ffffffffa08c7000>] ? 0xffffffffa08c7000 [<ffffffffa08c701e>] usb_audio_driver_init+0x1e/0x1000 [snd_usb_audio] [<ffffffff81002123>] do_one_initcall+0xb3/0x1f0 [<ffffffff811fb091>] ? __vunmap+0x81/0xd0 [<ffffffff8121b8d2>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x182/0x1d0 [<ffffffff811b0267>] ? do_init_module+0x27/0x1d8 [<ffffffff811b029f>] do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d8 [<ffffffff8112ce35>] load_module+0x1fe5/0x27a0 [<ffffffff81129870>] ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff81241690>] ? vfs_read+0x110/0x130 [<ffffffff8112d866>] SYSC_finit_module+0xe6/0x120 [<ffffffff8112d8be>] SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff81003d94>] do_syscall_64+0x64/0x110 [<ffffffff817c0b61>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 After encountering this, the system-udevd process seems to be blocked until it is killed when hitting its timeout of 3min. In analogy to the other accesses to members of quirk in usb_audio_probe(), check for quirk != NULL before accessing its ->media_device. Fixes: aebb2b89bff0 ("[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share media resources") Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx> --- Applicable to linux-next-20160315. sound/usb/card.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c index 63244bb..479621e 100644 --- a/sound/usb/card.c +++ b/sound/usb/card.c @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static int usb_audio_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, if (err < 0) goto __error; - if (quirk->media_device) { + if (quirk && quirk->media_device) { /* don't want to fail when media_snd_device_create() fails */ media_snd_device_create(chip, intf); } -- 2.7.2 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel