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[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:33:11PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a real oldie, but better late than never.
> 
> A while back, I discovered that this patch would help against a kernel
> panic when "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0" was executed on this machine,
> which was running an fglrx driver.
> 
> I asked for a stable backport, but Takashi wanted testing to make sure
> this was actually fixed by the patch [1]. And now, several months later,
> I have this confirmation [2].
> 
> The test was conducted on an 3.5 Ubuntu kernel, based on the 3.5
> extended stable tree, but would apply equally well to 3.4.
> 
> I'm attaching the backported patch - it applied cleanly, I've just added
> an extra section with an explanation.
> 

Thank you David, I'll queue it for the 3.5 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luis


> -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.  https://launchpad.net/~diwic
> 
> [1]
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2013-March/060132.html
> 
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1212160/comments/4

> From 76aabf83ca9c8cff2dd9e3bb5300e3778e0baf7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:32:22 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Move one-time init codes from
>  generic_hdmi_init()
> 
> The codes to initialize work struct or create a proc interface should
> be called only once and never although it's called many times through
> the init callback.  Move that stuff into patch_generic_hdmi() so that
> it's called only once.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> 
> (cherry picked from commit 8b8d654b55648561287bd8baca0f75f964a17038)
> 
> This is being backported to 3.4 and 3.5 due to prevention of kernel
> panic. The kernel panic was observed by executing
> 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0' on a particular machine, which was
>  - running in battery mode
>  - having an external HDMI monitor connected
>  - running the fglrx driver.
> 
> In short, the one-time init code initializes a delayed_work struct.
> Then, I believe the following happened:
>  1) the delayed_work was activated
>  2) the delayed_work struct was reinitialized by the init code
>  3) when the delayed_work timed out (ready to run the callback function),
>     the kernel panic happened because the delayed_work struct had
>     been corrupted in step 2.
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212160
> Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
> index 02a6e3f..ef917bf 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
> @@ -1282,23 +1282,34 @@ static int generic_hdmi_build_controls(struct hda_codec *codec)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int generic_hdmi_init(struct hda_codec *codec)
> +static int generic_hdmi_init_per_pins(struct hda_codec *codec)
>  {
>  	struct hdmi_spec *spec = codec->spec;
>  	int pin_idx;
>  
>  	for (pin_idx = 0; pin_idx < spec->num_pins; pin_idx++) {
>  		struct hdmi_spec_per_pin *per_pin = &spec->pins[pin_idx];
> -		hda_nid_t pin_nid = per_pin->pin_nid;
>  		struct hdmi_eld *eld = &per_pin->sink_eld;
>  
> -		hdmi_init_pin(codec, pin_nid);
> -		snd_hda_jack_detect_enable(codec, pin_nid, pin_nid);
> -
>  		per_pin->codec = codec;
>  		INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&per_pin->work, hdmi_repoll_eld);
>  		snd_hda_eld_proc_new(codec, eld, pin_idx);
>  	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int generic_hdmi_init(struct hda_codec *codec)
> +{
> +	struct hdmi_spec *spec = codec->spec;
> +	int pin_idx;
> +
> +	for (pin_idx = 0; pin_idx < spec->num_pins; pin_idx++) {
> +		struct hdmi_spec_per_pin *per_pin = &spec->pins[pin_idx];
> +		hda_nid_t pin_nid = per_pin->pin_nid;
> +
> +		hdmi_init_pin(codec, pin_nid);
> +		snd_hda_jack_detect_enable(codec, pin_nid, pin_nid);
> +	}
>  	snd_hda_jack_report_sync(codec);
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -1343,6 +1354,7 @@ static int patch_generic_hdmi(struct hda_codec *codec)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  	codec->patch_ops = generic_hdmi_patch_ops;
> +	generic_hdmi_init_per_pins(codec);
>  
>  	init_channel_allocations();
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
>

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Title:
   'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0' cause kernel panic (battery mode)

Status in HWE Next Project:
  Triaged
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Kernel panic if;
  1. boot up system with battery mode (no AC connected)
  2. insert HDMI cable
  3. execute 'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0'

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