Re: NULL pointer dereference when using ALSA SOC

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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM, David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2008, Arun KS wrote:
>> >>> I narrowed this into CONFIG_SLUB. When it's set, I can reproduce the
>> >>> bug both with N810 and Beagle but not when using CONFIG_SLAB.
>
> So it's confirmed that SLUB is a factor, but
> the root cause is still not known or resolved?

Correct.  I suspect that somewhere in alsa-lib code is not checking an
error return on a memory allocation.  When I previously discussed this
issue with the folks on alsa-devel they suspected a bug in alsa-lib.
I'll give them this additional data and see if someone there wants to
help track down the root cause.

Steve
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