Liam, Mark,
As discussed privately, here's the fix for the ASoC oops I've been seeing with DPCM in ALSA. This avoids unnecessarily exposing the ASoC internal PCM devices to userspace, which is complimentary to your patch fixing the deref of the PCM ops.
8<======== From: Russell King rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: fix oops in snd_pcm_info() caused by ASoC DPCM
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 pgd = d5300000 [00000008] *pgd=0d265831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT ARM CPU: 0 PID: 2295 Comm: vlc Not tainted 3.11.0+ #755 task: dee74800 ti: e213c000 task.ti: e213c000 PC is at snd_pcm_info+0xc8/0xd8 LR is at 0x30232065 pc : [<c031b52c>] lr : [<30232065>] psr: a0070013 sp : e213dea8 ip : d81cb0d0 fp : c05f7678 r10: c05f7770 r9 : fffffdfd r8 : 00000000 r7 : d8a968a8 r6 : d8a96800 r5 : d8a96200 r4 : d81cb000 r3 : 00000000 r2 : d81cb000 r1 : 00000001 r0 : d8a96200 Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user Control: 10c5387d Table: 15300019 DAC: 00000015 Process vlc (pid: 2295, stack limit = 0xe213c248) [<c031b52c>] (snd_pcm_info) from [<c031b570>] (snd_pcm_info_user+0x34/0x9c) [<c031b570>] (snd_pcm_info_user) from [<c03164a4>] (snd_pcm_control_ioctl+0x274/0x280) [<c03164a4>] (snd_pcm_control_ioctl) from [<c0311458>] (snd_ctl_ioctl+0xc0/0x55c) [<c0311458>] (snd_ctl_ioctl) from [<c00eca84>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x80/0x31c) [<c00eca84>] (do_vfs_ioctl) from [<c00ecd5c>] (SyS_ioctl+0x3c/0x60) [<c00ecd5c>] (SyS_ioctl) from [<c000e500>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48) Code: e1a00005 e59530dc e3a01001 e1a02004 (e5933008) ---[ end trace cb3d9bdb8dfefb3c ]---
This is provoked when the ASoC front end is open along with its backend, (which causes the backend to have a runtime assigned to it) and then the SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_PCM_INFO is requested for the (visible) backend device.
Resolve this by ensuring that ASoC internal backend devices are not visible to userspace, just as the commentry for snd_pcm_new_internal() says it should be.
Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk --- sound/core/pcm.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm.c b/sound/core/pcm.c index 17f45e8aa89c..e1e9e0c999fe 100644 --- a/sound/core/pcm.c +++ b/sound/core/pcm.c @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ static struct snd_pcm *snd_pcm_get(struct snd_card *card, int device) struct snd_pcm *pcm;
list_for_each_entry(pcm, &snd_pcm_devices, list) { + if (pcm->internal) + continue; if (pcm->card == card && pcm->device == device) return pcm; } @@ -60,6 +62,8 @@ static int snd_pcm_next(struct snd_card *card, int device) struct snd_pcm *pcm;
list_for_each_entry(pcm, &snd_pcm_devices, list) { + if (pcm->internal) + continue; if (pcm->card == card && pcm->device > device) return pcm->device; else if (pcm->card->number > card->number)