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    ASoC: fsl: imx-pcm-fiq: omit fiq counter to avoid harm in unbalanced situations · fc7dc61d
    Oskar Schirmer authored
    Unbalanced calls to snd_imx_pcm_trigger() may result in endless
    FIQ activity and thus provoke eternal sound. While on the first glance,
    the switch statement looks pretty symmetric, the SUSPEND/RESUME
    pair is not: the suspend case comes along snd_pcm_suspend_all(),
    which for fsl/imx-pcm-fiq is called only at snd_soc_suspend(),
    but the resume case originates straight from the SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_RESUME.
    This way userland may provoke an unbalanced resume, which might cause
    the fiq_enable counter to increase and never return to zero again,
    so eventually imx_pcm_fiq is never disabled.
    
    Simply removing the fiq_enable will solve the problem, as long as
    one never goes play and capture game simultaneously, but beware
    trying both at once, the early TRIGGER_STOP will cut off the other
    activity prematurely. So now playing and capturing is scrutinized
    separately, instead of by counting.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOskar Schirmer <oskar@scara.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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