This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: cx23885: Fix snd_card_free call on null card pointer 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: media-cx23885-fix-snd_card_free-call-on-null-card-po.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 a8598dcc7efb89fbe6e4fd9aa0dbd0b2731ad801 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 4 10:50:10 2021 +0200 media: cx23885: Fix snd_card_free call on null card pointer [ Upstream commit 7266dda2f1dfe151b12ef0c14eb4d4e622fb211c ] Currently a call to snd_card_new that fails will set card with a NULL pointer, this causes a null pointer dereference on the error cleanup path when card it passed to snd_card_free. Fix this by adding a new error exit path that does not call snd_card_free and exiting via this new path. Addresses-Coverity: ("Explicit null dereference") Fixes: 9e44d63246a9 ("[media] cx23885: Add ALSA support") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c index a8e980c6dacb9..50772c2611cad 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23885-alsa.c @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ struct cx23885_audio_dev *cx23885_audio_register(struct cx23885_dev *dev) SNDRV_DEFAULT_IDX1, SNDRV_DEFAULT_STR1, THIS_MODULE, sizeof(struct cx23885_audio_dev), &card); if (err < 0) - goto error; + goto error_msg; chip = (struct cx23885_audio_dev *) card->private_data; chip->dev = dev; @@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ struct cx23885_audio_dev *cx23885_audio_register(struct cx23885_dev *dev) error: snd_card_free(card); +error_msg: pr_err("%s(): Failed to register analog audio adapter\n", __func__);