[RFC PATCH 0/2] ASoC: atmel: ac97c: Fix IRQ handling sequences

[Manish Baing]

Hi all,
Just a quick follow-up on this series. I would appreciate any feedback
you might have on these patches.

Regards,
Manish Baing


On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM Manish Baing <manishbaing2789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This series addresses two hardware initialization and teardown issues in
> the atmel_ac97c driver flagged by the Sashiko AI bot.
> The original report can be found here:
> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260530052812.115994-1-manishbaing2789@gmail.com?part=1
>
> - Patch 1 moves request_irq() to the end of probe to prevent a null pointer
>   dereference if an interrupt fires early.
> - Patch 2 reorders the teardown sequence to free the IRQ before disabling
>   clocks and unmapping memory, preventing a use-after-free.
>
> I am submitting this as an RFC because I do not have the physical hardware
> to test these changes, However, my manual analysis indicates these are
> valid bugs, and the series compiles cleanly with W=1.
>
> Manish Baing (2):
>   ASoC: sound: atmel_ac97c: Fix IRQ handler null pointer dereference
>   ASoC: atmel: ac97c: Fix use-after-free on driver teardown
>
>  sound/atmel/ac97c.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
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