Revert "ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region"

stable inclusion
from stable-5.10.40
commit 00e5aa3f2116d82eb9b3f2f9eb06245ece506edb
bugzilla: 51882
CVE: NA

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commit 94f88309 upstream.

This reverts commit dcd0feac.

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 <kjlu@umn.edu>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fixes: dcd0feac ("ALSA: sb8: add a check for request_region")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-35-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>