This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Always acquire runtime pm ref on unload to the 4.8-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: asoc-intel-skylake-always-acquire-runtime-pm-ref-on-unload.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6d13f62d931ba638e54ba56f3a7dd3080ffb485a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:26:16 +0200 Subject: ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Always acquire runtime pm ref on unload From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6d13f62d931ba638e54ba56f3a7dd3080ffb485a upstream. skl_probe() releases a runtime pm ref unconditionally wheras skl_remove() acquires one only if the device is wakeup capable. Thus if the device is not wakeup capable, unloading and reloading the module will result in the refcount being decreased below 0. Fix it. Fixes: d8c2dab8381d ("ASoC: Intel: Add Skylake HDA audio driver") Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl.c +++ b/sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl.c @@ -785,8 +785,7 @@ static void skl_remove(struct pci_dev *p release_firmware(skl->tplg); - if (pci_dev_run_wake(pci)) - pm_runtime_get_noresume(&pci->dev); + pm_runtime_get_noresume(&pci->dev); /* codec removal, invoke bus_device_remove */ snd_hdac_ext_bus_device_remove(ebus); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lukas@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/asoc-intel-skylake-always-acquire-runtime-pm-ref-on-unload.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