This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: rawmidi: Remove kernel WARNING for NULL user-space buffer check to the 3.10-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-rawmidi-remove-kernel-warning-for-null-user-space-buffer-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cc85f7a634cfaf9f0713c6aa06d08817424db37a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:04:55 +0100 Subject: ALSA: rawmidi: Remove kernel WARNING for NULL user-space buffer check From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit cc85f7a634cfaf9f0713c6aa06d08817424db37a upstream. NULL user-space buffer can be passed even in a normal path, thus it's not good to spew a kernel warning with stack trace at each time. Just drop snd_BUG_ON() macro usage there. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+YfVJ3L+q0i-4vyQVyyPD7V=OMX0PWPi29x9Bo3QaBLdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/rawmidi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c +++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c @@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ static long snd_rawmidi_kernel_write1(st long count1, result; struct snd_rawmidi_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime; - if (snd_BUG_ON(!kernelbuf && !userbuf)) + if (!kernelbuf && !userbuf) return -EINVAL; if (snd_BUG_ON(!runtime->buffer)) return -EINVAL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-closing-in-virmidi-driver.patch queue-3.10/alsa-rawmidi-remove-kernel-warning-for-null-user-space-buffer-check.patch queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-lockdep-warnings-due-to-double-mutex-locks.patch queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-fix-teac-ud-501-ud-503-nt-503-usb-delay.patch queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-wrong-instance-passed-to-slave-callbacks.patch queue-3.10/alsa-compress-disable-get_codec_caps-ioctl-for-some-architectures.patch queue-3.10/alsa-hda-fix-speaker-output-from-vaio-aio-machines.patch queue-3.10/alsa-dummy-implement-timer-backend-switching-more-safely.patch queue-3.10/alsa-dummy-disable-switching-timer-backend-via-sysfs.patch queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-incorrect-sanity-check-at-snd_seq_oss_synth_cleanup.patch queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-yet-another-races-among-alsa-timer-accesses.patch queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-avoid-freeing-umidi-object-twice.patch queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-leftover-link-at-closing.patch queue-3.10/alsa-rawmidi-fix-race-at-copying-updating-the-position.patch queue-3.10/alsa-pcm-fix-potential-deadlock-in-oss-emulation.patch queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-link-corruption-due-to-double-start-or-stop.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html