From: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0efa3334d65b7f421ba12382dfa58f6ff5bf83c4 upstream. Currently in sst_dsp_new() if we get an error return from sst_dma_new() we just print an error message and then still complete the function successfully. This means that we are trying to run without sst->dma properly set up, which will result in NULL pointer dereference when sst->dma is later used. This was happening for me in sst_dsp_dma_get_channel(): struct sst_dma *dma = dsp->dma; ... dma->ch = dma_request_channel(mask, dma_chan_filter, dsp); This resulted in: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 IP: sst_dsp_dma_get_channel+0x4f/0x125 [snd_soc_sst_firmware] Fix this by adding proper error handling for the case where we fail to set up DMA. This change only affects Haswell and Broadwell systems. Baytrail systems explicilty opt-out of DMA via sst->pdata->resindex_dma_base being set to -1. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The upstream patch applied cleanly to all stable trees except linux-4.4.y and linux-3.18.y. This is the backport for linux-4.4.y, and the code I'm fixing was introduced in v4.0 so there is no need for a linux-3.18.y backport. The upstream patch is currently in Mark Brown's tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git/log/?h=for-next Is that good enough, or should I resend after it's been merged in the v5.2 merge window? --- sound/soc/intel/common/sst-dsp.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/common/sst-dsp.c b/sound/soc/intel/common/sst-dsp.c index c9452e02e0dda..c0a50ecb6dbda 100644 --- a/sound/soc/intel/common/sst-dsp.c +++ b/sound/soc/intel/common/sst-dsp.c @@ -463,11 +463,15 @@ struct sst_dsp *sst_dsp_new(struct device *dev, goto irq_err; err = sst_dma_new(sst); - if (err) - dev_warn(dev, "sst_dma_new failed %d\n", err); + if (err) { + dev_err(dev, "sst_dma_new failed %d\n", err); + goto dma_err; + } return sst; +dma_err: + free_irq(sst->irq, sst); irq_err: if (sst->ops->free) sst->ops->free(sst); -- 2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog