Hi Tomasz What I based my patch on is really because of this line: if (substream) snd_pcm_period_elapsed(substream); Boojin Kim thought that this was needed, if this is true anymore..? I have not been able to immerse myself so much in all patches. I'm working on about 100 similar patches. 344b4c48 sound/soc/samsung/dma.c (Boojin Kim 2011-09-02 09:44:43 +0900 123) prtd->dma_pos += prtd->dma_period; 344b4c48 sound/soc/samsung/dma.c (Boojin Kim 2011-09-02 09:44:43 +0900 124) if (prtd->dma_pos >= prtd->dma_end) 344b4c48 sound/soc/samsung/dma.c (Boojin Kim 2011-09-02 09:44:43 +0900 125) prtd->dma_pos = prtd->dma_start; 5111c075 sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-pcm.c (Mark Brown 2008-04-30 17:19:32 +0200 126) 344b4c48 sound/soc/samsung/dma.c (Boojin Kim 2011-09-02 09:44:43 +0900 127) if (substream) 344b4c48 sound/soc/samsung/dma.c (Boojin Kim 2011-09-02 09:44:43 +0900 128) snd_pcm_period_elapsed(substream); c0f41bb1 sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-pcm.c (Ben Dooks 2007-02-14 13:20:03 +0100 129) 344b4c48 sound/soc/samsung/dma.c (Boojin Kim 2011-09-02 09:44:43 +0900 130) spin_lock(&prtd->lock); Best regards Rickard Strandqvist 2014-05-19 12:52 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Rickard, > > On 15.05.2014 23:57, Rickard Strandqvist wrote: >> There is otherwise a risk of a possible null pointer dereference. >> >> Was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. >> >> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> sound/soc/samsung/dma.c | 10 ++++++---- >> 1 fil ändrad, 6 tillägg(+), 4 borttagningar(-) >> >> diff --git a/sound/soc/samsung/dma.c b/sound/soc/samsung/dma.c >> index dc09b71..b1f6757 100644 >> --- a/sound/soc/samsung/dma.c >> +++ b/sound/soc/samsung/dma.c >> @@ -115,17 +115,19 @@ static void dma_enqueue(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream) >> static void audio_buffdone(void *data) >> { >> struct snd_pcm_substream *substream = data; >> - struct runtime_data *prtd = substream->runtime->private_data; >> + struct runtime_data *prtd = NULL; >> >> pr_debug("Entered %s\n", __func__); >> >> - if (prtd->state & ST_RUNNING) { >> + if(substream) >> + prtd = substream->runtime->private_data; >> + >> + if (prtd && prtd->state & ST_RUNNING) { >> prtd->dma_pos += prtd->dma_period; >> if (prtd->dma_pos >= prtd->dma_end) >> prtd->dma_pos = prtd->dma_start; >> >> - if (substream) >> - snd_pcm_period_elapsed(substream); >> + snd_pcm_period_elapsed(substream); >> >> spin_lock(&prtd->lock); >> if (!samsung_dma_has_circular()) { >> > > Can you find a path (or use case, if possible) on which any of affected > pointers will be NULL? > > Best regards, > Tomasz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html