[PATCH] sound: hdmi: avoid dereferencing uninitialized 'jack' pointer

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Feb 16 08:38:40 PST 2016


On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:18:29PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > Another option might would be to change snd_jack_new() to return
> > an error if that SND_JACK is disabled, and then require all users
> > to handle the error gracefully, i.e. not fail the probe() function
> > but just not use the jack.

> Yes, I thought of that, too.  If select is no good option, it's a good
> alternative, indeed.

It's going to be a bunch of work to implement though.
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