[PATCH v4 00/10] topology: decode: Various fixes

Jaroslav Kysela perex at perex.cz
Mon Aug 31 19:57:33 CEST 2020


Dne 31. 08. 20 v 13:11 Jaroslav Kysela napsal(a):
> Dne 31. 08. 20 v 11:08 Piotr Maziarz napsal(a):
>> This series fixes various problems with topology decoding mechanism.
>> Some of the problems were critical like improper memory management or
>> infinite loops that were causing undefined behaviour or program crashes,
>> while other resulted in losing some data during conversion.
>>
>> Bugs found while testing with Intel SST topologies.
> 
> Thank you for this work. I applied all patches to the alsa-lib repository. I
> dislike the last one - dynamic allocation for each printf(), but I applied it
> until we found a better solution.
> 
> We may use the dynamic allocation only when the printf is bigger than the 1024
> bytes threshold (and keep the small buffer on stack otherwise) or create 'dst'
> structure which will carry the output buffer point and the temporary buffer
> pointer which will be freed when the output is finished.

I implemented the later suggestion in:

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/commit/472ab5db67a0ed04de634214773e7b17d10b5415

There are also other fixes in the topology library. It would be nice, if you
can give a test.

			Thank you,
				Jaroslav

-- 
Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.


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