From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently a call to snd_card_new that fails will set card with a NULL pointer, this causes a null pointer dereference on the error cleanup path when card it passed to snd_card_free. Fix this by adding a new error exit path that does not call snd_card_free and exiting via this new path. Addresses-Coverity: ("Explicit null dereference") Fixes: 9e44d63246a9 ("[media] cx23885: Add ALSA support") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c index ab14d35214aa..25dc8d4dc5b7 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ struct cx23885_audio_dev *cx23885_audio_register(struct cx23885_dev *dev) SNDRV_DEFAULT_IDX1, SNDRV_DEFAULT_STR1, THIS_MODULE, sizeof(struct cx23885_audio_dev), &card); if (err < 0) - goto error; + goto error_msg; chip = (struct cx23885_audio_dev *) card->private_data; chip->dev = dev; @@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ struct cx23885_audio_dev *cx23885_audio_register(struct cx23885_dev *dev) error: snd_card_free(card); +error_msg: pr_err("%s(): Failed to register analog audio adapter\n", __func__); -- 2.31.1