[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/5] ASoC: dwc: Don't allow negative use counts

[Andrew Jackson]

On 12/04/14 06:43, rajeev kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:10 PM, rajeev kumar
> <rajeevkumar.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:38:55PM +0000, Andrew Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>>       case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_STOP:
>>>>       case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_SUSPEND:
>>>>       case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_PAUSE_PUSH:
>>>> -             dev->active--;
>>>> +             if (dev->active > 0)
>>>> +                     dev->active--;
>>>
>>> How is this triggering - this sounds like you're papering over some
>>> other bug somewhere?
> 
> This check can be removed as it is not going to triggered.

As I said in my email to Mark, I couldn't convince myself that STOP/SUSPEND would only be called once so it seemed like a loophole which /might/ result in the device not functioning correctly.

If this can never happen, I'll drop the patch.

	Andrew

> B'rgds
> ~Rajeev
>