From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:21:40 +0000 Subject: [patch] ALSA: line6: fix a crash in line6_hwdep_write() Message-Id: <20161012062140.GT12841@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jaroslav Kysela , Andrej Krutak Cc: Takashi Iwai , Takashi Sakamoto , kbuild test robot , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org The error checking here is messed up so we could end up dereferencing -EFAULT. Fixes: a16039cbf1a1 ('ALSA: line6: Add hwdep interface to access the POD control messages') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/sound/usb/line6/driver.c b/sound/usb/line6/driver.c index 14e587e..90009c0 100644 --- a/sound/usb/line6/driver.c +++ b/sound/usb/line6/driver.c @@ -604,8 +604,8 @@ line6_hwdep_write(struct snd_hwdep *hwdep, const char __user *data, long count, } data_copy = memdup_user(data, count); - if (IS_ERR(ERR_PTR)) - return -ENOMEM; + if (IS_ERR(data_copy)) + return PTR_ERR(data_copy); rv = line6_send_raw_message(line6, data_copy, count);