This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: hda - Workaround for unbalanced i915 power refcount by concurrent probe to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alsa-hda-workaround-for-unbalanced-i915-power-refcount-by-concurrent-probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7169701ad3f9fadd7413b354ae317e67c0b37389 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 10:40:21 +0100 Subject: ALSA: hda - Workaround for unbalanced i915 power refcount by concurrent probe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 7169701ad3f9fadd7413b354ae317e67c0b37389 upstream. The recent addition of on-demand i915 audio component binding in the codec driver seems leading to the unbalanced i915 power refcount, according to Intel CI tests. Typically, it gets a kernel WARNING like: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 173 at sound/hda/hdac_i915.c:91 snd_hdac_display_power+0xf1/0x110 [snd_hda_core]() Call Trace: [<ffffffff813fef15>] dump_stack+0x67/0x92 [<ffffffff81078a21>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xc0 [<ffffffff81078b15>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffffa00f77e1>] snd_hdac_display_power+0xf1/0x110 [snd_hda_core] [<ffffffffa015039d>] azx_intel_link_power+0xd/0x10 [snd_hda_intel] [<ffffffffa011e32a>] azx_link_power+0x1a/0x30 [snd_hda_codec] [<ffffffffa00f21f9>] snd_hdac_link_power+0x29/0x40 [snd_hda_core] [<ffffffffa01192a6>] hda_codec_runtime_suspend+0x76/0xa0 [snd_hda_codec] ..... The scenario is like below: - HD-audio driver and i915 driver are probed concurrently at the (almost) same time; HDA bus tries to bind with i915, but it fails because i915 initialization is still being processed. - Later on, HD-audio probes the HDMI codec, where it again tries to bind with i915. At this time, it succeeds. - At finishing the probe of HDA, it decreases the refcount as if it were already bound at the bus probe, since the component is bound now. This triggers a kernel WARNING due to the unbalance. As a workaround, in this patch, we just disable the on-demand i915 component binding in the codec driver. This essentially reverts back to the state of 4.4 kernel. We know that this is no real solution, but it's a minimalistic simple change that can be applied to 4.5.x kernel as stable. Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94566 Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c @@ -2470,9 +2470,15 @@ static int patch_generic_hdmi(struct hda /* Try to bind with i915 for Intel HSW+ codecs (if not done yet) */ if ((codec->core.vendor_id >> 16) == 0x8086 && is_haswell_plus(codec)) { +#if 0 + /* on-demand binding leads to an unbalanced refcount when + * both i915 and hda drivers are probed concurrently; + * disabled temporarily for now + */ if (!codec->bus->core.audio_component) if (!snd_hdac_i915_init(&codec->bus->core)) spec->i915_bound = true; +#endif /* use i915 audio component notifier for hotplug */ if (codec->bus->core.audio_component) spec->use_acomp_notifier = true; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-4.5/alsa-hda-apply-reboot-d3-fix-for-cx20724-codec-too.patch queue-4.5/alsa-intel8x0-add-clock-quirk-entry-for-ad1981b-on-ibm-thinkpad-x41.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-add-new-gpu-codec-id-0x10de0082-to-snd-hda.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-limit-i915-hdmi-binding-only-for-hsw-and-later.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-fix-unexpected-resume-through-regmap-code-path.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-fix-missing-eld-update-at-unplugging.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-really-restrict-i915-notifier-to-hsw.patch queue-4.5/alsa-usb-audio-add-microsoft-hd-5001-to-quirks.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-workaround-for-unbalanced-i915-power-refcount-by-concurrent-probe.patch queue-4.5/alsa-usb-audio-fix-null-dereference-in-create_fixed_stream_quirk.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-fix-spurious-kernel-warning-on-baytrail-hdmi.patch queue-4.5/alsa-usb-audio-minor-code-cleanup-in-create_fixed_stream_quirk.patch queue-4.5/alsa-pcm-avoid-bug-string-for-warnings-again.patch queue-4.5/alsa-usb-audio-fix-double-free-in-error-paths-after-snd_usb_add_audio_stream-call.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-fix-unconditional-gpio-toggle-via-automute.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-don-t-handle-eld-notify-from-invalid-port.patch queue-4.5/alsa-usb-audio-add-sanity-checks-for-endpoint-accesses.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-fix-the-mic-mute-button-and-led-problem-for-a-lenovo-aio.patch queue-4.5/alsa-hda-fix-forgotten-hdmi-monitor_present-update.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html