Several functions that take part in codec's initialization and removal are re-used by ASoC codec drivers implementations. Drivers mimic the behavior of hda_codec_driver_probe/remove() found in sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c with their component->probe/remove() instead. One of the reasons for that is the expectation of snd_hda_codec_device_new() to receive a valid struct snd_card pointer what cannot be fulfilled on ASoC side until a card is attempted to be bound and its component probing is triggered. As ASoC sound card may be unbound without codec device being actually removed from the system, unsetting ->preset in snd_hda_codec_cleanup_for_unbind() interferes with module unload -> load scenario causing null-ptr-deref. Preset is assigned only once, during device/driver matching whereas ASoC codec driver's module reloading may occur several times throughout the lifetime of an audio stack. Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx> --- This is a continuation of a discussion that begun in the middle of 2022 [1] and was part of a larger series addressing several HDAudio topics. Single rmmod on ASoC's codec driver module is enough to cause a panic. Given our results, no regression shows up with modprobe/rmmod on snd_hda_intel side with this patch applied. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/20220706120230.427296-2-cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx/ sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c index edd653ece70d..ac1cc7c5290e 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c @@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ void snd_hda_codec_cleanup_for_unbind(struct hda_codec *codec) snd_array_free(&codec->cvt_setups); snd_array_free(&codec->spdif_out); snd_array_free(&codec->verbs); - codec->preset = NULL; codec->follower_dig_outs = NULL; codec->spdif_status_reset = 0; snd_array_free(&codec->mixers); -- 2.25.1
