Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: fix possible acpi enumeration panic

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Dec 11 2014 - 08:21:54 EST


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:21:57PM -0800, Kevin Strasser wrote:

> A crash can occur on some platforms where adsp is enumerated but codec
> is not matched. Check that the codec_id string is valid before
> attempting to match.

> - for (mach = machines; mach->codec_id; mach++)
> + for (mach = machines; mach->codec_id[0]; mach++)

This changes the check from verifying if a codec_id is present to
verifying if the first character in the codec_id is non-NULL. That
doesn't seem obviously safer and the tables of machines seem to be
terminated by having an entry with all fields set to zero (which is
a common idiom in Linux) which would now crash with this change.

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