Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] ASoC: Intel: hdac_hdmi: Set ops to NULL on remove

[Ranjani Sridharan]

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 13:00 +0200, Amadeusz SÅawiÅski wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:51:42 -0700
> Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2019-06-17 at 13:36 +0200, Amadeusz SÅawiÅski wrote:
> > > When we unload Skylake driver we may end up calling
> > > hdac_component_master_unbind(), it uses acomp->audio_ops, which
> > > we
> > > set
> > > in hdmi_codec_probe(), so we need to set it to NULL in
> > > hdmi_codec_remove(),
> > > otherwise we will dereference no longer existing pointer.  
> > 
> > Hi Amadeusz,
> > 
> > It looks like the audio_ops should be deleted
> > snd_hdac_acomp_exit().
> > Also, this doesnt seem to be the case with when the SOF driver is
> > removed.
> > Could you please give a bit more context on what error you see when
> > this happens?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I get Oops. This is what happens with all other patches in this
> series and only this one reverted:
> 
> root@APL:~# rmmod snd_soc_sst_bxt_rt298
> root@APL:~# rmmod snd_soc_hdac_hdmi
> root@APL:~# rmmod snd_soc_skl

Thanks, Amadeusz. I think the order in which the drivers are removed is
what's causing the oops in your case. With SOF, the order we remove is

1. rmmod sof_pci_dev
2. rmmod snd_soc_sst_bxt_rt298
3. rmmod snd_soc_hdac_hdmi

Thanks,
Ranjani