Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ALSA: ice1712: consider error value

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:43:31AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:09:06 +0530,
> Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > 
> > earlier we were ignoring the return value of snd_ak4114_create and
> > always returning 0.
> > now we are returning the actual status. revo_init is calling this
> > function, and revo_init is checking the return value.
> 
> It's not enough only to change there.  The problem is that
> spec->ak4114 is dereferenced after snd_ak4114_create(), and this might
> be NULL.  So it should return the error before that point.
> 

oops .. i should have looked carefully.

one more thought:
shouldn't we also do a kfree(spec) on error ?

thanks
sudip

> 
> Takashi
> 
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > ---
> >  sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c b/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c
> > index 1112ec1..2835196 100644
> > --- a/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c
> > +++ b/sound/pci/ice1712/revo.c
> > @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static int ap192_ak4114_init(struct snd_ice1712 *ice)
> >  	 * No reason to stop capture stream due to incorrect checks */
> >  	spec->ak4114->check_flags = AK4114_CHECK_NO_RATE;
> >  
> > -	return 0; /* error ignored; it's no fatal error */
> > +	return err;
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int revo_init(struct snd_ice1712 *ice)
> > -- 
> > 1.8.1.2
> >