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The smatch tool reported a potential null pointer dereference in
tascam_midi_in_urb_complete(). The 'tascam' variable, derived from
'urb->context', was checked for nullity in one place, but dereferenced
without a check in several other places.
This patch fixes the issue by adding a null check at the beginning of
the function. If 'tascam' is null, the function now safely exits.
This prevents any potential crashes from null pointer dereferences.
It also fixes a latent bug where 'usb_put_urb()' could
be called twice for the same URB on submission failure, which would
lead to a use-after-free error.
Fixes: 67afec157f ("ALSA: usb-audio: us144mkii: Add MIDI support and mixer controls")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202508192109.lcMrINK1-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Šerif Rami <ramiserifpersia@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250819185133.10464-1-ramiserifpersia@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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