[alsa-devel] [PATCH v5 00/17] ASoC: fsl_ssi: Clean up - program flow level

[Nicolin Chen]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:

> However, I have a small nitpick regarding a comment newly added in
> this version of patch 16:
> +		/*
> +		 * Do not set SSI dev as the parent of AC97 CODEC device since
> +		 * it does not have a DT node. Otherwise ASoC core will assume
> +		 * CODEC has the same DT node as the SSI, so it may return a
> +		 * NULL pointer of CODEC when asked for SSI via the DT node
> 
> The second part of the last sentence isn't really true, the ASoC core
> will return a (valid, non-NULL) CODEC object pointer when asked for
> the SSI one if we set the SSI as the parent device of a AC'97 CODEC
> platform device.
> 
> The NULL pointer dereference when starting a playback that I wrote
> about in my previous message happens because in this situation the SSI
> DAI probe callback won't ever get called and so won't setup DMA data
> pointers (they will remain NULL).

Well, somehow the DMA data pointer of CODEC could be described
as "a NULL pointer of CODEC" reluctantly...it confuses people
though.

> And this in turn will cause the ASoC DMA code to dereference these
> NULL pointers when starting a playback (the same will probably happen
> also when starting a capture).
> 
> Sorry if I wasn't 100% clear about these details in my previous
> message describing this issue.

I would prefer to send an incremental patch later to update it,
if there are no new comments against this version; Otherwise, I
will update it in a next version once there is a need to send a
v6 anyway.

Thanks