This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer to the 5.10-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-ac97-fix-possible-null-dereference-in-snd_ac97_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0af6a1b9044476e5ad9c34d741e5741709f84afd Author: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 15 10:17:32 2023 +0800 ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer [ Upstream commit 79597c8bf64ca99eab385115743131d260339da5 ] smatch error: sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error: we previously assumed 'rac97' could be null (see line 2072) remove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL. Fixes: da3cec35dd3c ("ALSA: Kill snd_assert() in sound/pci/*") Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615021732.1972194-1-suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c index cd66632bf1c37..e18572eae5e01 100644 --- a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c +++ b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c @@ -2007,8 +2007,8 @@ int snd_ac97_mixer(struct snd_ac97_bus *bus, struct snd_ac97_template *template, .dev_disconnect = snd_ac97_dev_disconnect, }; - if (rac97) - *rac97 = NULL; + if (!rac97) + return -EINVAL; if (snd_BUG_ON(!bus || !template)) return -EINVAL; if (snd_BUG_ON(template->num >= 4))