[PATCH 2/2] ALSA: compress: Propagate real pointer errors in avail paths
From: Cássio Gabriel
Date: Tue Apr 14 2026 - 12:48:47 EST
Commit 61327f3d817c ("ALSA: compress: Pay attention if drivers
error out retrieving pointers") made snd_compr_update_tstamp()
return driver pointer() failures, but snd_compr_calc_avail()
still ignores that status and continues with stale runtime
counters.
The fallback for an unsupported pointer callback remains
intentional, so keep ignoring -EOPNOTSUPP there. Propagate
real pointer-refresh failures instead.
This makes SNDRV_COMPRESS_AVAIL, read() and write() fail
immediately on real pointer errors, and makes poll() report
EPOLLERR instead of continuing with stale availability data.
snd_compr_tstamp() already propagates the same errors, so
this also restores consistency between the timestamp and
avail paths.
Fixes: 61327f3d817c ("ALSA: compress: Pay attention if drivers error out retrieving pointers")
Signed-off-by: Cássio Gabriel <cassiogabrielcontato@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/compress_offload.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/compress_offload.c b/sound/core/compress_offload.c
index e3239c739d34..5a125329d5b7 100644
--- a/sound/core/compress_offload.c
+++ b/sound/core/compress_offload.c
@@ -207,18 +207,23 @@ static int snd_compr_update_tstamp(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
return 0;
}
-static size_t snd_compr_calc_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
- struct snd_compr_avail64 *avail)
+static int snd_compr_calc_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
+ struct snd_compr_avail64 *avail)
{
+ int ret;
+
memset(avail, 0, sizeof(*avail));
- snd_compr_update_tstamp(stream, &avail->tstamp);
- /* Still need to return avail even if tstamp can't be filled in */
+ ret = snd_compr_update_tstamp(stream, &avail->tstamp);
+ if (ret < 0 && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ return ret;
+ /* Still need to return avail when no timestamp is available */
if (stream->runtime->total_bytes_available == 0 &&
stream->runtime->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_SETUP &&
stream->direction == SND_COMPRESS_PLAYBACK) {
pr_debug("detected init and someone forgot to do a write\n");
- return stream->runtime->buffer_size;
+ avail->avail = stream->runtime->buffer_size;
+ return 0;
}
pr_debug("app wrote %llu, DSP consumed %llu\n",
stream->runtime->total_bytes_available,
@@ -227,11 +232,12 @@ static size_t snd_compr_calc_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
stream->runtime->total_bytes_transferred) {
if (stream->direction == SND_COMPRESS_PLAYBACK) {
pr_debug("both pointers are same, returning full avail\n");
- return stream->runtime->buffer_size;
+ avail->avail = stream->runtime->buffer_size;
} else {
pr_debug("both pointers are same, returning no avail\n");
- return 0;
+ avail->avail = 0;
}
+ return 0;
}
avail->avail = stream->runtime->total_bytes_available -
@@ -240,14 +246,21 @@ static size_t snd_compr_calc_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
avail->avail = stream->runtime->buffer_size - avail->avail;
pr_debug("ret avail as %zu\n", (size_t)avail->avail);
- return avail->avail;
+ return 0;
}
-static inline size_t snd_compr_get_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream)
+static inline int snd_compr_get_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
+ size_t *avail_ret)
{
struct snd_compr_avail64 avail;
+ int ret;
- return snd_compr_calc_avail(stream, &avail);
+ ret = snd_compr_calc_avail(stream, &avail);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
+
+ *avail_ret = avail.avail;
+ return 0;
}
static void snd_compr_avail32_from_64(struct snd_compr_avail *avail32,
@@ -262,15 +275,16 @@ static int snd_compr_ioctl_avail(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
{
struct snd_compr_avail64 ioctl_avail64;
struct snd_compr_avail ioctl_avail32;
- size_t avail;
const void *copy_from = &ioctl_avail64;
size_t copy_size = sizeof(ioctl_avail64);
+ int ret;
if (stream->direction == SND_COMPRESS_ACCEL)
return -EBADFD;
- avail = snd_compr_calc_avail(stream, &ioctl_avail64);
- ioctl_avail64.avail = avail;
+ ret = snd_compr_calc_avail(stream, &ioctl_avail64);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
if (is_32bit) {
snd_compr_avail32_from_64(&ioctl_avail32, &ioctl_avail64);
copy_from = &ioctl_avail32;
@@ -346,7 +360,9 @@ static ssize_t snd_compr_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
return -EBADFD;
}
- avail = snd_compr_get_avail(stream);
+ retval = snd_compr_get_avail(stream, &avail);
+ if (retval < 0)
+ return retval;
pr_debug("avail returned %lu\n", (unsigned long)avail);
/* calculate how much we can write to buffer */
if (avail > count)
@@ -402,7 +418,9 @@ static ssize_t snd_compr_read(struct file *f, char __user *buf,
return -EPIPE;
}
- avail = snd_compr_get_avail(stream);
+ retval = snd_compr_get_avail(stream, &avail);
+ if (retval < 0)
+ return retval;
pr_debug("avail returned %lu\n", (unsigned long)avail);
/* calculate how much we can read from buffer */
if (avail > count)
@@ -437,6 +455,7 @@ static __poll_t snd_compr_poll(struct file *f, poll_table *wait)
struct snd_compr_stream *stream;
struct snd_compr_runtime *runtime;
size_t avail;
+ int ret;
__poll_t retval = 0;
if (snd_BUG_ON(!data))
@@ -471,7 +490,9 @@ static __poll_t snd_compr_poll(struct file *f, poll_table *wait)
}
#endif
- avail = snd_compr_get_avail(stream);
+ ret = snd_compr_get_avail(stream, &avail);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return snd_compr_get_poll(stream) | EPOLLERR;
pr_debug("avail is %lu\n", (unsigned long)avail);
/* check if we have at least one fragment to fill */
switch (runtime->state) {
--
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