Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: ASoC: soc-compress.c: fix NULL dereference

Qais Yousef
2015-01-14T07:53:09Z

On 01/13/2015 04:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:16:10PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
>> On 01/13/2015 02:59 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>> being NULL, hence when trying to set rtd a few lines below we get an oops.
>>> It is a good practice to add the oops here
>> Will this really be helpful? I think it'll be more clutter (the backtrace on
>> metag arch is not great):
> It's better in general to leave it out unless it's adding something (for
> example sometimes the particular call path is important) and even there
> edit it down to relevant details - the splat from the full oops normally
> overwhelms the commit message.

I think the commit message explains what's going. So unless Vinod
insists I'll send v3 with the other 2 requested fixes.

Thanks for the review!