From e508c5360fb55c82dfbb44f2f6ac264f5242b09e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:57:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region" This reverts commit 4333a39960b3ab0c769918e7a33c63e19e9d57cb. Because of recent interactions with developers from @umn.edu, all commits from them have been recently re-reviewed to ensure if they were correct or not. Upon review, this commit was found to be incorrect for the reasons below, so it must be reverted. It will be fixed up "correctly" in a later kernel change. The original commit message for this change was incorrect as the code path can never result in a NULL dereference, alluding to the fact that whatever tool was used to "find this" is broken. It's just an optional resource reservation, so removing this check is fine. Cc: Kangjie Lu Acked-by: Takashi Iwai Fixes: 4333a39960b3 ("ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region") Cc: stable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-35-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- sound/isa/sb/sb8.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c index 6c9d534ce8b61..95290ffe5c6e7 100644 --- a/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c +++ b/sound/isa/sb/sb8.c @@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ static int snd_sb8_probe(struct device *pdev, unsigned int dev) /* block the 0x388 port to avoid PnP conflicts */ acard->fm_res = request_region(0x388, 4, "SoundBlaster FM"); - if (!acard->fm_res) { - err = -EBUSY; - goto _err; - } if (port[dev] != SNDRV_AUTO_PORT) { if ((err = snd_sbdsp_create(card, port[dev], irq[dev], -- 2.39.5