This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: pxa: fix null-pointer dereference in filter() to the 6.1-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-pxa-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-filter.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 272c13da510ebb9adc62f62e8f0802ec0db096cb Author: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 14 16:56:29 2022 +0800 ASoC: pxa: fix null-pointer dereference in filter() [ Upstream commit ec7bf231aaa1bdbcb69d23bc50c753c80fb22429 ] kasprintf() would return NULL pointer when kmalloc() fail to allocate. Need to check the return pointer before calling strcmp(). Fixes: 7a824e214e25 ("ASoC: mmp: add audio dma support") Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114085629.1910435-1-zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/soc/pxa/mmp-pcm.c b/sound/soc/pxa/mmp-pcm.c index 5d520e18e512..99b245e3079a 100644 --- a/sound/soc/pxa/mmp-pcm.c +++ b/sound/soc/pxa/mmp-pcm.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static bool filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *param) devname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s.%d", dma_data->dma_res->name, dma_data->ssp_id); - if ((strcmp(dev_name(chan->device->dev), devname) == 0) && + if (devname && (strcmp(dev_name(chan->device->dev), devname) == 0) && (chan->chan_id == dma_data->dma_res->start)) { found = true; }