linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 012/101] ALSA: hda - Force polling mode on CFL for fixing codec communication

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:26:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 012/101] ALSA: hda - Force polling mode on CFL for fixing codec communication

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

commit a8d7bde23e7130686b76624b099f3e22dd38aef7 upstream.

We've observed too long probe time with Coffee Lake (CFL) machines,
and the likely cause is some communication problem between the
HD-audio controller and the codec chips.  While the controller expects
an IRQ wakeup for each codec response, it seems sometimes missing, and
it takes one second for the controller driver to time out and read the
response in the polling mode.

Although we aren't sure about the real culprit yet, in this patch, we
put a workaround by forcing the polling mode as default for CFL
machines; the polling mode itself isn't too heavy, and much better
than other workarounds initially suggested (e.g. disabling
power-save), at least.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199007
Fixes: e79b0006c45c ("ALSA: hda - Add Coffelake PCI ID")
Reported-and-tested-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@...onical.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ enum {
 					((pci)->device == 0x160c))

 #define IS_BXT(pci) ((pci)->vendor == 0x8086 && (pci)->device == 0x5a98)
+#define IS_CFL(pci) ((pci)->vendor == 0x8086 && (pci)->device == 0xa348)

 static char *driver_short_names[] = {
 	[AZX_DRIVER_ICH] = "HDA Intel",
@@ -1744,6 +1745,10 @@ static int azx_create(struct snd_card *c
 	else
 		chip->bdl_pos_adj = bdl_pos_adj[dev];

+	/* Workaround for a communication error on CFL (bko#199007) */
+	if (IS_CFL(pci))
+		chip->polling_mode = 1;
+
 	err = azx_bus_init(chip, model[dev], &pci_hda_io_ops);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		kfree(hda);