On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 08:25:30PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 01:28:57PM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > > On 1/22/20 1:07 PM, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > > The code which checks the return value for snd_soc_add_dai_link() call > > > in soc_tplg_fe_link_create() moved the snd_soc_add_dai_link() call before > > > link->dobj members initialization. > > > > While it does not affect the latest kernels, the old soc-core.c code > > > in the stable kernels is affected. The snd_soc_add_dai_link() function uses > > > the link->dobj.type member to check, if the link structure is valid. > > > > Reorder the link->dobj initialization to make things work again. > > > It's harmless for the recent code (and the structure should be properly > > > initialized before other calls anyway). > > > > The problem is in stable linux-5.4.y since version 5.4.11 when the > > > upstream commit 76d270364932 was applied. > > > I am not following. Is this a fix for linux-5.4-y only, or is it needed on > > Mark's tree? In the latter case, what is broken? We've been using Mark's > > tree without issues, wondering what we missed? > > He's saying it's a fix for stable but it's just a cleanup and robustness > improvement in current kernels - when the patch 76d270364932 (ASoC: > topology: Check return value for snd_soc_add_dai_link()) was backported > by the bot the bot missed some other context which triggered bugs. > > Copying in Sasha and Greg for stable (not sure if the list works by > itself). How this was marked-up is fine, our scripts can easily handle it, thanks. greg k-h _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
