A widget's "dirty" list_head, much like its "list" list_head, eventually chains back to a list_head on the snd_soc_card itself. This means that the list can stick around even after the widget (or all widgets) have been freed. Currently, however, widgets that are in the dirty list when freed remain there, corrupting the entire list and leading to memory errors and undefined behavior when the list is next accessed or modified. I encountered this issue when a component failed to probe relatively late in snd_soc_bind_card(), causing it to bail out and call soc_cleanup_card_resources(), which eventually called snd_soc_dapm_free() with widgets that were still dirty from when they'd been added. Fixes: db432b414e20 ("ASoC: Do DAPM power checks only for widgets changed since last run") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@xxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c index 7f87b449f950..148c095df27b 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c @@ -2486,6 +2486,7 @@ void snd_soc_dapm_free_widget(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w) enum snd_soc_dapm_direction dir; list_del(&w->list); + list_del(&w->dirty); /* * remove source and sink paths associated to this widget. * While removing the path, remove reference to it from both -- 2.29.2