This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: hda - Revert power_save option default value to the 4.14-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-revert-power_save-option-default-value.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 40088dc4e1ead7df31728c73f5b51d71da18831d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:55:48 +0100 Subject: ALSA: hda - Revert power_save option default value From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 40088dc4e1ead7df31728c73f5b51d71da18831d upstream. With the commit 1ba8f9d30817 ("ALSA: hda: Add a power_save blacklist"), we changed the default value of power_save option to -1 for processing the power-save blacklist. Unfortunately, this seems breaking user-space applications that actually read the power_save parameter value via sysfs and judge / adjust the power-saving status. They see the value -1 as if the power-save is turned off, although the actual value is taken from CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT and it can be a positive. So, overall, passing -1 there was no good idea. Let's partially revert it -- at least for power_save option default value is restored again to CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT. Meanwhile, in this patch, we keep the blacklist behavior and make is adjustable via the new option, pm_blacklist. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199073 Fixes: 1ba8f9d30817 ("ALSA: hda: Add a power_save blacklist") Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c @@ -181,11 +181,15 @@ static const struct kernel_param_ops par }; #define param_check_xint param_check_int -static int power_save = -1; +static int power_save = CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT; module_param(power_save, xint, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(power_save, "Automatic power-saving timeout " "(in second, 0 = disable)."); +static bool pm_blacklist = true; +module_param(pm_blacklist, bool, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_blacklist, "Enable power-management blacklist"); + /* reset the HD-audio controller in power save mode. * this may give more power-saving, but will take longer time to * wake up. @@ -2300,10 +2304,9 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx val = power_save; #ifdef CONFIG_PM - if (val == -1) { + if (pm_blacklist) { const struct snd_pci_quirk *q; - val = CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT; q = snd_pci_quirk_lookup(chip->pci, power_save_blacklist); if (q && val) { dev_info(chip->card->dev, "device %04x:%04x is on the power_save blacklist, forcing power_save to 0\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-4.14/alsa-pcm-fix-uaf-in-snd_pcm_oss_get_formats.patch queue-4.14/alsa-seq-fix-possible-uaf-in-snd_seq_check_queue.patch queue-4.14/alsa-hda-revert-power_save-option-default-value.patch queue-4.14/alsa-seq-clear-client-entry-before-deleting-else-at-closing.patch