Re: 2.6.19-rc4-mm2: BUG modprobeing sound driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:28:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 22:05:15 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yup, trivial to reproduce: modprobe snd_serial_u16550 -> splat.
> > 
> > Bisection indicates that this oops is triggered by
> > gregkh-driver-sound-device.patch.
> > 
> > snd_serial_probe() never got to call snd_card_register(), so card->dev is
> > NULL.
> > 
> > snd_serial_probe() calls snd_card_free(card) on the error path and
> > snd_card_do_free() does device_del(card->dev) which oopses over the null
> > pointer it got.  
> 
> I suppose doing this is legit:
> 
> diff -puN sound/core/init.c~fix-gregkh-driver-sound-device sound/core/init.c
> --- a/sound/core/init.c~fix-gregkh-driver-sound-device
> +++ a/sound/core/init.c
> @@ -361,7 +361,8 @@ static int snd_card_do_free(struct snd_c
>  		snd_printk(KERN_WARNING "unable to free card info\n");
>  		/* Not fatal error */
>  	}
> -	device_unregister(card->dev);
> +	if (card->dev)
> +		device_unregister(card->dev);
>  	kfree(card);
>  	return 0;
>  }

Good idea, I've made that change now to the sound code.

thanks,

greg k-h