From: Mark Brown <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 31ddc62c1cd92e51b9db61d7954b85ae2ec224da ]

ALSA controls should return 1 if the value in the control changed but the
control put operation fsl_easrc_set_reg() only returns 0 or a negative
error code, causing ALSA to not generate any change events. Add a suitable
check by using regmap_update_bits_check() with the underlying regmap, this
is more clearly and simply correct than trying to verify that one of the
generic ops is exactly equivalent to this one.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Link: 
https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---

LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:

The driver has been present since 2020 (v5.8 timeframe), so it exists in
all current stable trees.

## Analysis

**What the commit fixes:**
The `fsl_easrc_set_reg()` function is an ALSA control `.put` callback.
Per ALSA API contract, `.put` callbacks must return 1 if the value
changed, 0 if unchanged, or negative on error. The original code always
returned 0 on success (via `snd_soc_component_write()`), never returning
1, which means ALSA never generated change notification events to
userspace when the control value was updated.

**The fix:**
Replaces `snd_soc_component_write()` with `regmap_update_bits_check()`
which provides a `changed` boolean output. The function now returns
`changed` (0 or 1) on success, correctly implementing the ALSA control
API.

**Stable criteria assessment:**
1. **Obviously correct and tested**: Yes - authored and signed off by
   Mark Brown (ASoC maintainer). The pattern is well-established across
   many similar fixes in ASoC (I found 15+ similar "Fix event
   generation" commits).
2. **Fixes a real bug**: Yes - missing change events means userspace
   applications (e.g., PulseAudio, PipeWire, ALSA mixer tools) won't be
   notified of control changes, causing incorrect UI state or behavior.
3. **Small and contained**: Yes - changes only a few lines in a single
   function, in a single file.
4. **No new features**: Correct - this is purely a bug fix restoring
   proper API semantics.
5. **Risk**: Very low - the `regmap_update_bits_check()` API has been
   available for a long time, and the change is a well-understood
   pattern used across many ASoC drivers.

**Scope**: The change is surgical - it replaces
`snd_soc_component_write()` with `regmap_update_bits_check()` and
adjusts the return value logic. The semantic behavior is the same
(writing the register value) but now it also detects whether the value
actually changed.

**Verification:**
- Read the current file at lines 93-110: confirmed the fix is applied
  and is as described in the diff.
- `git log` on the file: the driver was introduced in commit
  955ac624058f9 (2020-04-16), present in all current LTS trees (5.15+,
  6.1+, 6.6+).
- Searched for similar "Fix event generation" commits in ASoC: found 15+
  similar commits following the exact same pattern, indicating this is a
  well-established class of bug fix that has been widely backported
  before.
- The commit is authored by Mark Brown, the ASoC subsystem maintainer,
  lending high confidence in correctness.
- The `regmap_update_bits_check()` API has been available since at least
  v3.x, so no dependency issues for stable trees.
- Could not verify if the companion commit 8f8d0defdb1a3 (fixing
  `fsl_easrc_iec958_put_bits()`) would also need backporting - it's a
  separate but related fix for the same class of bug in the same file.

**YES** - This is a small, surgical bug fix by the ASoC maintainer that
corrects incorrect ALSA control API behavior (missing change events).
The pattern is well-established across many ASoC drivers, carries
minimal risk, and the driver has existed in stable trees since 2020.

**YES**

 sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c b/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c
index e64a0d97afd0c..733374121196e 100644
--- a/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c
+++ b/sound/soc/fsl/fsl_easrc.c
@@ -93,14 +93,17 @@ static int fsl_easrc_set_reg(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
        struct snd_soc_component *component = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
        struct soc_mreg_control *mc =
                (struct soc_mreg_control *)kcontrol->private_value;
+       struct fsl_asrc *easrc = snd_soc_component_get_drvdata(component);
        unsigned int regval = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0];
+       bool changed;
        int ret;
 
-       ret = snd_soc_component_write(component, mc->regbase, regval);
-       if (ret < 0)
+       ret = regmap_update_bits_check(easrc->regmap, mc->regbase,
+                                      GENMASK(31, 0), regval, &changed);
+       if (ret != 0)
                return ret;
 
-       return 0;
+       return changed;
 }
 
 #define SOC_SINGLE_REG_RW(xname, xreg) \
-- 
2.51.0


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