[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Abort capability probe on invalid capability

[Vinod Koul]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 05:15:25AM +0530, Ughreja, Rakesh A wrote:
> From: Rakesh Ughreja <rakesh.a.ughreja at intel.com>
> 
> Due to bugs in BIOS it's possible that the HDA capability link

It maybe due to BIOS bug or some other issue, lets not quantify that please.

I would say "On reading wrong capablity pointer values we may crash...

> list is not constructed properly. This may lead to driver going
> into unknown state. 

I dont think we maintain driver states which are going wrong here

> So whenever driver discovers unknown HDA
> capability, log it as error and stop traversing the link list
> further.

that sound good

> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Ughreja <rakesh.a.ughreja at intel.com>
> ---
>  sound/hda/hdac_controller.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c b/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c
> index 978dc18..8f7d0d9 100644
> --- a/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c
> +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c
> @@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ int snd_hdac_bus_parse_capabilities(struct hdac_bus *bus)
>  			break;
>  
>  		default:
> -			dev_dbg(bus->dev, "Unknown capability %d\n", cur_cap);
> +			dev_err(bus->dev, "Unknown capability %d\n", cur_cap);
> +			cur_cap = 0;
>  			break;
>  		}
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

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~Vinod