In the case of ASoC driver, the hdac_hda_priv pointer containing the hda_codec is device-managed. It will be freed when the ASoC device is removed during driver unloading. Freeing the codec in snd_hda_codec_dev_release() leads to kernel panics while unloading and reloading the ASoC driver. Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c index 6c51b8363f8b..a2e23d7e768f 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c @@ -846,7 +846,13 @@ static void snd_hda_codec_dev_release(struct device *dev) snd_hda_sysfs_clear(codec); kfree(codec->modelname); kfree(codec->wcaps); - kfree(codec); + + /* + * In the case of ASoC HD-audio, hda_codec is device managed. + * It will be freed when the ASoC device is removed. + */ + if (codec->core.type == HDA_DEV_LEGACY) + kfree(codec); } #define DEV_NAME_LEN 31 -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
