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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Han Lu <han.lu@intel.com>,
	Libin Yang <libin.yang@linux.intel.com>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>,
	David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound: hdmi: avoid dereferencing uninitialized 'jack' pointer
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:38:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216163840.GA7544@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h4md87hnu.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-16 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 14:47 [PATCH] sound: hdmi: avoid dereferencing uninitialized 'jack' pointer Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 15:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-16 16:09   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 16:18     ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-16 16:38       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2016-02-16 16:43         ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-16 16:59         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 17:09           ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 17:10           ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-16 17:26             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-16 22:08               ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-17  9:03                 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-17  9:24                   ` [PATCH] ALSA: jack: Allow building the jack layer without input kbuild test robot
2016-02-17  9:35                   ` [PATCH] sound: hdmi: avoid dereferencing uninitialized 'jack' pointer Takashi Iwai
2016-02-17  9:40                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-24 16:18                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-24 16:25                       ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-24 16:39                         ` Arnd Bergmann

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