4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1524f4e47f90b27a3ac84efbdd94c63172246a6f upstream. The "chip->dsp_spos_instance" can be NULL on some of the ealier error paths in snd_cs46xx_create(). Reported-by: "Yavuz, Tuba" <tuba@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/cs46xx/dsp_spos.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/sound/pci/cs46xx/dsp_spos.c +++ b/sound/pci/cs46xx/dsp_spos.c @@ -900,6 +900,9 @@ int cs46xx_dsp_proc_done (struct snd_cs4 struct dsp_spos_instance * ins = chip->dsp_spos_instance; int i; + if (!ins) + return 0; + snd_info_free_entry(ins->proc_sym_info_entry); ins->proc_sym_info_entry = NULL;