This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: hda: fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend 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: alsa-hda-fix-null-pointer-dereference-during-suspend.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 f7c9e6d1ef564791c92b7b01cd948c4c89914b40 Author: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 28 16:10:11 2020 -0700 ALSA: hda: fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend [ Upstream commit 7fcd9bb5acd01250bcae1ecc0cb8b8d4bb5b7e63 ] When the ASoC card registration fails and the codec component driver never probes, the codec device is not initialized and therefore memory for codec->wcaps is not allocated. This results in a NULL pointer dereference when the codec driver suspend callback is invoked during system suspend. Fix this by returning without performing any actions during codec suspend/resume if the card was not registered successfully. Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200728231011.1454066-1-ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c index 07c03c32715a9..801abf0fc98b3 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c @@ -2924,6 +2924,10 @@ static int hda_codec_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev) struct hda_codec *codec = dev_to_hda_codec(dev); unsigned int state; + /* Nothing to do if card registration fails and the component driver never probes */ + if (!codec->card) + return 0; + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&codec->jackpoll_work); state = hda_call_codec_suspend(codec); if (codec->link_down_at_suspend || @@ -2938,6 +2942,10 @@ static int hda_codec_runtime_resume(struct device *dev) { struct hda_codec *codec = dev_to_hda_codec(dev); + /* Nothing to do if card registration fails and the component driver never probes */ + if (!codec->card) + return 0; + codec_display_power(codec, true); snd_hdac_codec_link_up(&codec->core); hda_call_codec_resume(codec);