Re: ASoC: atmel-pcm-dma: Leaking memory in atmel_pcm_hw_params

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Hi Lars,

On 3/18/2013 23:36, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
On 03/18/2013 04:59 AM, Bo Shen wrote:
Hi Lars,

On 3/17/2013 22:39, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
Hi,

The dmaengine based pcm driver for atmel calls snd_dmaengine_pcm_open from
it's hw_params callback. There is nothing preventing an application calling
hw_params more than once. snd_dmaengine_pcm_open allocates a new prtd struct
each time it gets called. So in case hw_params is called multiple times we
leak memory here.

I use alsa utils and don't meet this issue. Please point out which software
you use meet this issue.

I found the issue by looking at the code, but I think any application using
the oss compatibility layer of ALSA will trigger this.

Thanks for this information.



Is there any specific reason why snd_dmaengine_pcm_open() needs to be called
from the hw_params callback and why it can't be called from the open
callback?

This is because dma data setting and usage.

The filter function depends on the data returned by
snd_soc_dai_get_dma_data(), but as far as I can see the DAI driver calls
snd_soc_dai_set_dma_data() from its startup() callback, so the data is
available in the PCM drivers open callback.

Have you test this yet?

I don't have the hardware. I just looked at the code again, and it looks
like I must have misread it the first time. snd_soc_dai_set_dma_data() is
called from the DAI drivers hwparams callback. But the data that gets passed
to snd_soc_dai_set_dma_data() doesn't really depend on anything that's only
available in the hwparams callback. So the snd_soc_dai_set_dma_data() could
easily be move to the DAI driver startup() callback.

I will implement this, and send patch for this.

Thanks again.

- Lars


Best Regards,
Bo Shen
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