This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: aloop: Fix initialization of controls to the 4.14-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-aloop-fix-initialization-of-controls.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 168632a495f49f33a18c2d502fc249d7610375e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonas Holmberg <jonashg@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:54:28 +0200 Subject: ALSA: aloop: Fix initialization of controls From: Jonas Holmberg <jonashg@xxxxxxxx> commit 168632a495f49f33a18c2d502fc249d7610375e9 upstream. Add a control to the card before copying the id so that the numid field is initialized in the copy. Otherwise the numid field of active_id, format_id, rate_id and channels_id will be the same (0) and snd_ctl_notify() will not queue the events properly. Signed-off-by: Jonas Holmberg <jonashg@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210407075428.2666787-1-jonashg@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/drivers/aloop.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/sound/drivers/aloop.c +++ b/sound/drivers/aloop.c @@ -1062,6 +1062,14 @@ static int loopback_mixer_new(struct loo return -ENOMEM; kctl->id.device = dev; kctl->id.subdevice = substr; + + /* Add the control before copying the id so that + * the numid field of the id is set in the copy. + */ + err = snd_ctl_add(card, kctl); + if (err < 0) + return err; + switch (idx) { case ACTIVE_IDX: setup->active_id = kctl->id; @@ -1078,9 +1086,6 @@ static int loopback_mixer_new(struct loo default: break; } - err = snd_ctl_add(card, kctl); - if (err < 0) - return err; } } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jonashg@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/alsa-aloop-fix-initialization-of-controls.patch