On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 01:14:51 +0200, Takashi Sakamoto wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mar 26 2016 21:05, Takashi Sakamoto wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patchset is for Linux 4.6-rc2. > > > > ALSA dice driver causes kernel NULL pointer dereference in a case that > > no sound card instance is registered and unit is going to be removed. > > This is observed when dice-based units are connected to Linux system and > > disconnected within 2 seconds, thus it's rare. > > > > Additionally, even if the bug is fixed, the driver dumps warnings for > > most dice-based models which supports a pair of isochronous streams. > > This can occur regardless of the former bug. Users can see this for > > unsupported dice-based models. > > > > This patchset fixes these bugs. > > I realized that this patchset is not proper to Linux 4.6-rc2. The stream > data is confirmed to initialized in unit probe callback, and safely > released when releasing private data. I worked on the other branch and > had a confusion. So please drop this. > > However, current ALSA dice driver has a bug not to release stream data > when releasing private data. This causes memory leak and should be fixed > in 4.6-rc2. I'll post a patch for the bug soon. So, I don't need to pick up this patchset after applying your fix ([PATCH v2] ALSA: dice: fix memory leak when unplugging)? thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
