This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: ctl: fix error path at adding user-defined element set to the 5.4-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-ctl-fix-error-path-at-adding-user-defined-element-set.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 95a793c3bc75cf888e0e641d656e7d080f487d8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:20:43 +0900 Subject: ALSA: ctl: fix error path at adding user-defined element set From: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 95a793c3bc75cf888e0e641d656e7d080f487d8b upstream. When processing request to add/replace user-defined element set, check of given element identifier and decision of numeric identifier is done in "__snd_ctl_add_replace()" helper function. When the result of check is wrong, the helper function returns error code. The error code shall be returned to userspace application. Current implementation includes bug to return zero to userspace application regardless of the result. This commit fixes the bug. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: e1a7bfe38079 ("ALSA: control: Fix race between adding and removing a user element") Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113092043.16148-1-o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/control.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/core/control.c +++ b/sound/core/control.c @@ -1350,7 +1350,7 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_add(struct snd_c unlock: up_write(&card->controls_rwsem); - return 0; + return err; } static int snd_ctl_elem_add_user(struct snd_ctl_file *file, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/alsa-ctl-fix-error-path-at-adding-user-defined-element-set.patch queue-5.4/alsa-firewire-clean-up-a-locking-issue-in-copy_resp_to_buf.patch