This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: topology: Check return value of pcm_new_ver to the 5.4-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: asoc-topology-check-return-value-of-pcm_new_ver.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7984acf07f4e0758897508645fa5d7abbe1c639d Author: Amadeusz SÅ?awiÅ?ski <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 27 16:47:28 2020 -0400 ASoC: topology: Check return value of pcm_new_ver [ Upstream commit b3677fc3d68dd942c92de52f0bd9dd8b472a40e6 ] Function pcm_new_ver can fail, so we should check it's return value and handle possible error. Signed-off-by: Amadeusz SÅ?awiÅ?ski <amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327204729.397-6-amadeuszx.slawinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-topology.c b/sound/soc/soc-topology.c index e0b40d4d8784c..22960f5932c7f 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-topology.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-topology.c @@ -2092,7 +2092,9 @@ static int soc_tplg_pcm_elems_load(struct soc_tplg *tplg, _pcm = pcm; } else { abi_match = false; - pcm_new_ver(tplg, pcm, &_pcm); + ret = pcm_new_ver(tplg, pcm, &_pcm); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; } /* create the FE DAIs and DAI links */