This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region
to the 5.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
alsa-sb8-add-a-check-for-request_region.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 365903ab8535b99ddc8025a110ab24fd02a07da4
Author: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 14 23:04:14 2019 -0500
ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region
[ Upstream commit dcd0feac9bab901d5739de51b3f69840851f8919 ]
In case request_region fails, the fix returns an error code to
avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
index d77dcba276b5..1eb8b61a185b 100644
--- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
+++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ static int snd_sb8_probe(struct device *pdev, unsigned int dev)
/* block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts */
acard->fm_res = request_region(0x388, 4, "SoundBlaster FM");
+ if (!acard->fm_res) {
+ err = -EBUSY;
+ goto _err;
+ }
if (port[dev] != SNDRV_AUTO_PORT) {
if ((err = snd_sbdsp_create(card, port[dev], irq[dev],
