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authorYazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>2026-09-03 10:43:25 -0500
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x86/amd_node: Fix PCI device reference counting in amd_smn_init()grafted
The local "root" pointer is a temporary variable used during the device search. Therefore, refcount related to the search iterators should be cleaned up after the search is complete. Use the __free() cleanup macro to ensure the refcount is decremented when the temporary pointer goes out of scope. Additionally, increment the refcount when caching a root pointer. This ensures the in-use refcount is separate from the temporary search refcounting. Finally, drop the redundant "root = NULL" before the second search loop. The pci_get_class() iterator always decrements the refcount of its "from" argument, so the first loop can only fall through with "root" already NULL. Fixes: 0a4b61d9c2e4 ("x86/amd_node: Fix AMD root device caching") Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806160159.230453-1-jason.andryuk%40amd.com Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903154325.74343-1-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+Digital TV Conditional Access Interface
+=======================================
+
+
+.. note::
+
+ This documentation is outdated.
+
+This document describes the usage of the high level CI API as
+in accordance to the Linux DVB API. This is a not a documentation for the,
+existing low level CI API.
+
+.. note::
+
+ For the Twinhan/Twinhan clones, the dst_ca module handles the CI
+ hardware handling. This module is loaded automatically if a CI
+ (Common Interface, that holds the CAM (Conditional Access Module)
+ is detected.
+
+ca_zap
+~~~~~~
+
+A userspace application, like ``ca_zap`` is required to handle encrypted
+MPEG-TS streams.
+
+The ``ca_zap`` userland application is in charge of sending the
+descrambling related information to the Conditional Access Module (CAM).
+
+This application requires the following to function properly as of now.
+
+a) Tune to a valid channel, with szap.
+
+ eg: $ szap -c channels.conf -r "TMC" -x
+
+b) a channels.conf containing a valid PMT PID
+
+ eg: TMC:11996:h:0:27500:278:512:650:321
+
+ here 278 is a valid PMT PID. the rest of the values are the
+ same ones that szap uses.
+
+c) after running a szap, you have to run ca_zap, for the
+ descrambler to function,
+
+ eg: $ ca_zap channels.conf "TMC"
+
+d) Hopefully enjoy your favourite subscribed channel as you do with
+ a FTA card.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Currently ca_zap, and dst_test, both are meant for demonstration
+ purposes only, they can become full fledged applications if necessary.
+
+
+Cards that fall in this category
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+At present the cards that fall in this category are the Twinhan and its
+clones, these cards are available as VVMER, Tomato, Hercules, Orange and
+so on.
+
+CI modules that are supported
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The CI module support is largely dependent upon the firmware on the cards
+Some cards do support almost all of the available CI modules. There is
+nothing much that can be done in order to make additional CI modules
+working with these cards.
+
+Modules that have been tested by this driver at present are
+
+(1) Irdeto 1 and 2 from SCM
+(2) Viaccess from SCM
+(3) Dragoncam