[PATCH] drm/bridge: sii902x: Balance audio mclk enable and disable

From: Sen Wang

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 13:35:55 EST


The driver currently has an unbalanced clk enable count, as
sii902x_audio_hw_params() enables the mclk, but sii902x_audio_shutdown()
disables it unconditionally. This creates a few issues:

1. hdmi-codec calls audio_shutdown() on every PCM close, even if
hw_params() never ran. For example, PipeWire queries the hw params
at initialization, via:

aplay -D hw:0,0 --dump-hw-params /dev/zero

The clock core then hits WARN() in clk_core_disable() and
clk_core_unprepare(), printing a backtrace and tainting the kernel:

sii9022-mclk already disabled
sii9022-mclk already unprepared

2. A second hw_params() without a shutdown in between enables the
clock again, thus the count never returns to zero.

Therefore track whether hw_params() enabled the clock, and only disable
it in that case, to keep the clock enable count balanced.

Fixes: ff5781634c41 ("drm/bridge: sii902x: Implement HDMI audio support")
Signed-off-by: Sen Wang <sen@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii902x.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii902x.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii902x.c
index 9aac44ed5b67..df72712f4296 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii902x.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sii902x.c
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ struct sii902x {
*/
struct mutex mutex;
struct sii902x_audio {
+ bool mclk_enabled;
struct platform_device *pdev;
struct clk *mclk;
u32 i2s_fifo_sequence[4];
@@ -681,10 +682,13 @@ static int sii902x_audio_hw_params(struct device *dev, void *data,
}
}

- ret = clk_prepare_enable(sii902x->audio.mclk);
- if (ret) {
- dev_err(dev, "Enabling mclk failed: %d\n", ret);
- return ret;
+ if (!sii902x->audio.mclk_enabled) {
+ ret = clk_prepare_enable(sii902x->audio.mclk);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Enabling mclk failed: %d\n", ret);
+ return ret;
+ }
+ sii902x->audio.mclk_enabled = true;
}

if (sii902x->audio.mclk) {
@@ -761,6 +765,7 @@ static int sii902x_audio_hw_params(struct device *dev, void *data,

if (ret) {
clk_disable_unprepare(sii902x->audio.mclk);
+ sii902x->audio.mclk_enabled = false;
dev_err(dev, "%s: hdmi audio enable failed: %d\n", __func__,
ret);
}
@@ -779,7 +784,10 @@ static void sii902x_audio_shutdown(struct device *dev, void *data)

mutex_unlock(&sii902x->mutex);

- clk_disable_unprepare(sii902x->audio.mclk);
+ if (sii902x->audio.mclk_enabled) {
+ clk_disable_unprepare(sii902x->audio.mclk);
+ sii902x->audio.mclk_enabled = false;
+ }
}

static int sii902x_audio_mute(struct device *dev, void *data,
--
2.43.0