Re: [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: compress: Robustness improvements in pointer() handling

From: Takashi Iwai

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 05:22:08 EST


On Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:57:33 +0200,
Mark Brown wrote:
>
> While looking at an ASoC driver I happened to notice a divide by zero on
> a pointer operation, discussion of which with Péter Ujfalusi identified
> several other issues in the handling of pointer operations in the core.
> This isn't a comprehensive review, it's just fixing up issues that
> happened to be noticed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Mark Brown (2):
> ALSA: compress: Refuse to update timestamps for unconfigured streams
> ALSA: compress: Pay attention if drivers error out retrieving pointers

As it's at a quite late stage, I applied to for-next branch for 7.1.


thanks,

Takashi