On Thu, 2020-07-30 at 15:07 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:06:25 +0200, > Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:03:22 +0200, > > Ranjani Sridharan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 09:48 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 01:10:11 +0200, > > > > Ranjani Sridharan wrote: > > > > > When the ASoC card registration fails and the codec component > > > > > driver > > > > > never probes, the codec device is not initialized and > > > > > therefore > > > > > memory for codec->wcaps is not allocated. This results in a > > > > > NULL > > > > > pointer > > > > > dereference when the codec driver suspend callback is invoked > > > > > during > > > > > system suspend. Fix this by returning without performing any > > > > > actions > > > > > during codec suspend/resume if the card was not registered > > > > > successfully. > > > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart < > > > > > pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan < > > > > > ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > The code changes look OK to apply, but I still wonder how the > > > > runtime > > > > PM gets invoked even if the device is not instantiated > > > > properly? > > > Hi Takashi, > > > > > > Its not runtime PM suspend but rather the system PM suspend > > > callback > > > that is invoked when the system is suspended that ends up > > > callling the > > > the runtime PM callback. So, the sequence is: > > > hda_codec_pm_suspend() > > > -> pm_runtime_force_suspend() > > > -> hda_codec_runtime_suspend() > > > > OK, but the problem is still same. The basic problem is that the > > hda_codec_driver_probe() is called for the hda_codec object that > > hasn't been initialized and bypasses to ext_ops.hdev_attach. > > > > So, we can factor out the fundamental part of > > snd_hda_codec_device_new() that is irrelevant with the card object > > and > > call it in hdac_hda_dev_probe(). > > I meant something like below (totally untested) Thanks, Takashi. I can test this out and get back to you by next week. Thanks, Ranjani