From: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The indexes of the devices are described within the topology file, it is a possibility that the topology encodes invalid indexes when DYNAMIC_MINORS is not enabled in kernel: #define SNDRV_MINOR_COMPRESS 2 /* 2 - 3 */ #define SNDRV_MINOR_HWDEP 4 /* 4 - 7 */ #define SNDRV_MINOR_RAWMIDI 8 /* 8 - 15 */ #define SNDRV_MINOR_PCM_PLAYBACK 16 /* 16 - 23 */ #define SNDRV_MINOR_PCM_CAPTURE 24 /* 24 - 31 */ If the topology assigns an index greater than 7 for PLAYBACK/CAPTURE PCM then there will be minor number collision. As an example: card0 creates a capture PCM with index 10 -> minor = 34 card1 creates compress device with index 0 -> minor = 34 Card1 will fail to instantiate because the minor for the compress stream is already taken. To avoid seemingly mysterious issues with card creation, select the DYNAMIC_MINORS when the topology is enabled. The other option would be to try to do out of bound index checks in case of DYNAMIC_MINOR is not enabled and do not even attempt to create the device with failing the topology load. Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/sound/soc/Kconfig b/sound/soc/Kconfig index 8a13462e1a63..5dcf77af07af 100644 --- a/sound/soc/Kconfig +++ b/sound/soc/Kconfig @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ config SND_SOC_COMPRESS config SND_SOC_TOPOLOGY bool + select SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS config SND_SOC_TOPOLOGY_KUNIT_TEST tristate "KUnit tests for SoC topology" -- 2.25.1
