[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: snd-usb: mixer: ignore -EINVAL in snd_usb_mixer_controls()

[Daniel Mack]

Creation of individual mixer controls may fail, but that shouldn't cause
the entire mixer creation to fail. Even worse, if the mixer creation
fails, that will error out the entire device probing.

All the functions called by parse_audio_unit() should return -EINVAL if
they find descriptors that are unsupported or believed to be malformed,
so we can safely handle this error code as a non-fatal condition in
snd_usb_mixer_controls().

That fixes a long standing bug which is commonly worked around by
adding quirks which make the driver ignore entire interfaces. Some of
them might now be unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Rodolfo Thomazelli <pe.soberbo at gmail.com>
---
 sound/usb/mixer.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/mixer.c b/sound/usb/mixer.c
index db30d02..ac833f0 100644
--- a/sound/usb/mixer.c
+++ b/sound/usb/mixer.c
@@ -2120,7 +2120,7 @@ static int snd_usb_mixer_controls(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer)
 			state.oterm.type = le16_to_cpu(desc->wTerminalType);
 			state.oterm.name = desc->iTerminal;
 			err = parse_audio_unit(&state, desc->bSourceID);
-			if (err < 0)
+			if (err < 0 && err != -EINVAL)
 				return err;
 		} else { /* UAC_VERSION_2 */
 			struct uac2_output_terminal_descriptor *desc = p;
@@ -2132,12 +2132,12 @@ static int snd_usb_mixer_controls(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer)
 			state.oterm.type = le16_to_cpu(desc->wTerminalType);
 			state.oterm.name = desc->iTerminal;
 			err = parse_audio_unit(&state, desc->bSourceID);
-			if (err < 0)
+			if (err < 0 && err != -EINVAL)
 				return err;
 
 			/* for UAC2, use the same approach to also add the clock selectors */
 			err = parse_audio_unit(&state, desc->bCSourceID);
-			if (err < 0)
+			if (err < 0 && err != -EINVAL)
 				return err;
 		}
 	}
-- 
1.8.1.4