From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BCDC43619 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8D4651FF for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232246AbhCHMgA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2021 07:36:00 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:44990 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232166AbhCHMfi (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2021 07:35:38 -0500 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 921C6651DC; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:35:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1615206937; bh=rAMjjK9s+a59lqPXO59oO/s8fAJOPiviYCrBl1784o8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=TlifchyX1/6+raEOlohjGgDvHoDGbzmp08FY6LsOVrJEVtbZqqhJdraQgSBV9HnEr p33O/m+hV0wiL/DaQKmMsrxgtvQTs455xgtY0wg1y292MH30evZ5D6C6j3Mz6/XdLl gdkyvVY9N2O0+F5jeclcIQK7PsTcdGBI4ZZTs3XQ= From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai Subject: [PATCH 5.11 04/44] ALSA: usb-audio: Drop bogus dB range in too low level Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 13:34:42 +0100 Message-Id: <20210308122718.807791412@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.1 In-Reply-To: <20210308122718.586629218@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210308122718.586629218@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg Kroah-Hartman From: Takashi Iwai commit 21cba9c5359dd9d1bffe355336cfec0b66d1ee52 upstream. Some USB audio firmware seem to report broken dB values for the volume controls, and this screws up applications like PulseAudio who blindly trusts the given data. For example, Edifier G2000 reports a PCM volume from -128dB to -127dB, and this results in barely inaudible sound. This patch adds a sort of sanity check at parsing the dB values in USB-audio driver and disables the dB reporting if the range looks bogus. Here, we assume -96dB as the bottom line of the max dB. Note that, if one can figure out that proper dB range later, it can be patched in the mixer maps. BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211929 Cc: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210227105737.3656-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- sound/usb/mixer.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/sound/usb/mixer.c +++ b/sound/usb/mixer.c @@ -1301,6 +1301,17 @@ no_res_check: /* totally crap, return an error */ return -EINVAL; } + } else { + /* if the max volume is too low, it's likely a bogus range; + * here we use -96dB as the threshold + */ + if (cval->dBmax <= -9600) { + usb_audio_info(cval->head.mixer->chip, + "%d:%d: bogus dB values (%d/%d), disabling dB reporting\n", + cval->head.id, mixer_ctrl_intf(cval->head.mixer), + cval->dBmin, cval->dBmax); + cval->dBmin = cval->dBmax = 0; + } } return 0;