Re: [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: remove widget from dirty list on free

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Dec 16 2020 - 10:53:51 EST


On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:20:12 -0800, Thomas Hebb wrote:
> A widget's "dirty" list_head, much like its "list" list_head, eventually
> chains back to a list_head on the snd_soc_card itself. This means that
> the list can stick around even after the widget (or all widgets) have
> been freed. Currently, however, widgets that are in the dirty list when
> freed remain there, corrupting the entire list and leading to memory
> errors and undefined behavior when the list is next accessed or
> modified.
>
> [...]

Applied to

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-next

Thanks!

[1/1] ASoC: dapm: remove widget from dirty list on free
commit: 5c6679b5cb120f07652418524ab186ac47680b49

All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if
problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted.

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Thanks,
Mark