[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] ASoC: Intel: hdac_hdmi: Set ops to NULL on remove

[Ranjani Sridharan]

On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 23:36 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:51:42 +0200,
> Ranjani Sridharan wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 13:36 +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> > > When we unload Skylake driver we may end up calling
> > > hdac_component_master_unbind(), it uses acomp->audio_ops, which
> > > we
> > > set
> > > in hdmi_codec_probe(), so we need to set it to NULL in
> > > hdmi_codec_remove(),
> > > otherwise we will dereference no longer existing pointer.
> > 
> > Hi Amadeusz,
> > 
> > It looks like the audio_ops should be deleted
> > snd_hdac_acomp_exit().
> 
> It's a different one.  The codec driver registers / de-registers the
> notifier at its probe/remove, while the controller driver takes care
> of snd_hdac_acomp_init().  snd_hdac_acomp_exit() is usually not
> needed
> to be called explicitly, as it's managed via devres.

Makes sense, thanks Takashi. But I am still wondering why we havent
seen this issue with SOF yet. We run the module unload/reload stress
test as well and havent seen this yet. 

Thanks,
Ranjani
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 
> > Also, this doesnt seem to be the case with when the SOF driver is
> > removed.
> > Could you please give a bit more context on what error you see when
> > this happens?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ranjani
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Sławiński <
> > > amadeuszx.slawinski at linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
> > > b/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
> > > index 911bb6e2a1ac..9ee1bff548d8 100644
> > > --- a/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
> > > +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/hdac_hdmi.c
> > > @@ -1890,6 +1890,12 @@ static void hdmi_codec_remove(struct
> > > snd_soc_component *component)
> > >  {
> > >  	struct hdac_hdmi_priv *hdmi =
> > > snd_soc_component_get_drvdata(component);
> > >  	struct hdac_device *hdev = hdmi->hdev;
> > > +	int ret;
> > > +
> > > +	ret = snd_hdac_acomp_register_notifier(hdev->bus, NULL);
> > > +	if (ret < 0)
> > > +		dev_err(&hdev->dev, "notifier unregister failed: err:
> > > %d\n",
> > > +				ret);
> > >  
> > >  	pm_runtime_disable(&hdev->dev);
> > >  }
> > 
> >