This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: ump: Don't open legacy substream for an inactive group to the 6.12-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-ump-don-t-open-legacy-substream-for-an-inactive.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 47c9504c777bcc05a5660e6213a8753099ef6460 Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 29 10:45:42 2024 +0100 ALSA: ump: Don't open legacy substream for an inactive group [ Upstream commit 3978d53df7236f0a517c2abeb43ddf6ac162cdd8 ] When a UMP Group is inactive, we shouldn't allow users to access it via the legacy MIDI access. Add the group active flag check and return -ENODEV if it's inactive. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241129094546.32119-2-tiwai@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/core/ump.c b/sound/core/ump.c index 8d37f237f83b..0ade67d6b089 100644 --- a/sound/core/ump.c +++ b/sound/core/ump.c @@ -1087,6 +1087,8 @@ static int snd_ump_legacy_open(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream) guard(mutex)(&ump->open_mutex); if (ump->legacy_substreams[dir][group]) return -EBUSY; + if (!ump->groups[group].active) + return -ENODEV; if (dir == SNDRV_RAWMIDI_STREAM_OUTPUT) { if (!ump->legacy_out_opens) { err = snd_rawmidi_kernel_open(&ump->core, 0,