Re: [PATCH 4.5 128/238] ALSA: hda - Fix missing ELD update at unplugging

[Takashi Iwai]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:39:00 +0200,
Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
> On zo, 2016-04-10 at 11:35 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
> > +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
> > @@ -1670,11 +1670,10 @@ static void sync_eld_via_acomp(struct hd
> >  	int size;
> >  
> >  	mutex_lock(&per_pin->lock);
> > +	eld->monitor_present = false;
> >  	size = snd_hdac_acomp_get_eld(&codec->bus->core, per_pin->pin_nid,
> >  				      &eld->monitor_present, eld->eld_buffer,
> >  				      ELD_MAX_SIZE);
> > -	if (size < 0)
> > -		goto unlock;
> 
> This hunk triggers an obviously correct warning:
>     sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c: In function 'sync_eld_via_acomp':
>     sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c:1695:2: warning: label 'unlock' defined but not used [-Wunused-label]
>       unlock:
>       ^
> 
> It's trivial to silence this warning for the v4.5 stable build, of
> course. But I never saw this warning in my v4.6-rc builds, so it's
> possible another patch should also be included in the v4.5 stable tree.
> Takashi?

The newer kernel has more code jumping to unlock label, so it's a
warning seen only on 4.5 kernel.  If this really matters, we'd need a
non-upstream fix to paper over it.


thanks,

Takashi