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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: "Wang, Jiada (ESD)" <Jiada_Wang@mentor.com>,
	"lgirdwood@gmail.com" <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	"perex@perex.cz" <perex@perex.cz>,
	"alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Frkuska, Joshua" <Joshua_Frkuska@mentor.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] unload Audio drivers while playback stream is active case kernel crash
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:54:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150113215412.GS4160@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h1tmyiof7.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 06:24:44PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Wang, Jiada (ESD) wrote:

> > I am using i.MX6Q sabreSD board, which have imx_wm892 machine driver, wm8962 codec and SSI CPU DAI,

> > I got Kernel crash when unloading audio drivers (playback stream is active)
> > modprobe -r snd_soc_imx_wm8962
> > modprobe -r snd_soc_fsl_ssi
> > modprobe -r snd_soc_wm8962

> The root problem is that you can unload the module while playing.
> The corresponding module refcounts should have been increased during
> used.

> Do we miss [try_]module_get() somewhere in ASoC?

That doesn't help, users can still forcibly unbind the driver at runtime
without loading the module - and there's always the potential for
actually hotpluggable hardware.  The teardown paths should be able to
cope somewhat gracefully.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-09 11:39 unload Audio drivers while playback stream is active case kernel crash Wang, Jiada (ESD)
2015-01-13 17:24 ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2015-01-13 21:54   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2015-01-14  7:43     ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-14  8:15       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-01-14  8:25         ` jiwang
2015-01-14  9:34           ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-01-14  8:47         ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-14 10:00           ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-01-14 10:50             ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-14 12:02               ` Mark Brown
2015-01-14 12:57                 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-01-14 13:06                   ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-14 13:43                   ` Fabio Estevam
2015-01-15  4:40                     ` jiwang
2015-01-15  6:14                       ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-15 10:52                       ` Mark Brown
2015-01-14 13:01                 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-01-14 16:34                   ` Mark Brown
2015-01-15  6:21                     ` Takashi Iwai

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