Re: [Patch] Check sound_alloc_mixerdev() failure in sound/oss/nm256_audio.c

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> When sound_alloc_mixerdev() fails it returns a
> negative value, which the driver fails to check.

That's true.

> --- linux-2.6.17-rc5/sound/oss/nm256_audio.c.orig
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc5/sound/oss/nm256_audio.c
> @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ nm256_install_mixer (struct nm256_info *
>  	return -1;
>  
>      mixer = sound_alloc_mixerdev();
       ^^^^^
> -    if (num_mixers >= MAX_MIXER_DEV) {
> +    if ((num_mixers >= MAX_MIXER_DEV) || (num_mixers < 0)) {
					     ^^^^^^^^^^
>  	printk ("NM256 mixer: Unable to alloc mixerdev\n");
>  	return -1;
>      }

But it is _still_ fails to check it.

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