[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ALSA: pcsp: Fix the order of input device unregistration" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Dec 6 23:08:39 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: pcsp: Fix the order of input device unregistration

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b52cf4ed98bb1fe32fcf0b7f322e6634c6c38de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:45:12 +0100
Subject: ALSA: pcsp: Fix the order of input device unregistration

commit 6408eac2665955343cd0e4bcd7d6237ce39611ed upstream.

The current code may access to the already freed object.  The input
device must be accessed and unregistered before freeing the top level
sound object.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c b/sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c
index 7a5fdb9..cc7cd2d 100644
--- a/sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c
+++ b/sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c
@@ -187,8 +187,8 @@ static int pcsp_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 static int pcsp_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
 	struct snd_pcsp *chip = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
-	alsa_card_pcsp_exit(chip);
 	pcspkr_input_remove(chip->input_dev);
+	alsa_card_pcsp_exit(chip);
 	platform_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
 	return 0;
 }
--
1.8.3.2





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