[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Check for NULL widget in dapm_update_dai_unlocked

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 12:00, Charles Keepax
<ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 11:22:33AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 11:05, Charles Keepax
> > <ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > DAIs linked to the dummy will not have an associated playback/capture
> > > widget, so we need to skip the update in that case.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 078a85f2806f ("ASoC: dapm: Only power up active channels from a DAI")
> > > Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Ok so that all makes sense, this patch is probably the best fix?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Charles
> >
> > For this particular issue (NULL-pointer):
> > Reported-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> > Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> >
> > However now I see bug sleeping in atomic context:
> >
> > [   64.000828] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > ../kernel/locking/mutex.c:908
>
> Does this probably definitely get fixed by reverting my patch?
> It's just a bit odd as this seems to be complaining about a clock
> operation in i2s_trigger and I don't think my patch should have
> any affect on the trigger callback. It should get run from either
> the dai_link DAPM event or hw_params, neither of which should
> happen in an atomic context.

Before this fixup, probably NULL pointer happened before any of this.
I tried it now few times and the possible deadlock and sleeping in
invalid context did not appear. It might be random/racy or totally
unrelated to your change.

Best regards,
Krzysztof