This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: hda - Downgrade error message for single-cmd fallback to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alsa-hda-downgrade-error-message-for-single-cmd-fall.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3023fe388ff2c9b1be288fb0afab4ff2368a567d Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 16 16:12:24 2019 +0100 ALSA: hda - Downgrade error message for single-cmd fallback [ Upstream commit 475feec0c41ad71cb7d02f0310e56256606b57c5 ] We made the error message for the CORB/RIRB communication clearer by upgrading to dev_WARN() so that user can notice better. But this struck us like a boomerang: now it caught syzbot and reported back as a fatal issue although it's not really any too serious bug that worth for stopping the whole system. OK, OK, let's be softy, downgrade it to the standard dev_err() again. Fixes: dd65f7e19c69 ("ALSA: hda - Show the fatal CORB/RIRB error more clearly") Reported-by: syzbot+b3028ac3933f5c466389@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216151224.30013-1-tiwai@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c index 9cdf86f04e03..a25e34b2f82a 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ static int azx_rirb_get_response(struct hdac_bus *bus, unsigned int addr, return -EAGAIN; /* give a chance to retry */ } - dev_WARN(chip->card->dev, + dev_err(chip->card->dev, "azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x%08x\n", bus->last_cmd[addr]); chip->single_cmd = 1;