This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens to the 4.3-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-seq-degrade-the-error-message-for-too-many-opens.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From da10816e3d923565b470fec78a674baba794ed33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:24:56 +0100 Subject: ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit da10816e3d923565b470fec78a674baba794ed33 upstream. ALSA OSS sequencer spews a kernel error message ("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications") when user-space tries to open more than the limit. This means that it can easily fill the log buffer. Since it's merely a normal error, it's safe to suppress it via pr_debug() instead. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ snd_seq_oss_open(struct file *file, int dp->index = i; if (i >= SNDRV_SEQ_OSS_MAX_CLIENTS) { - pr_err("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n"); + pr_debug("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n"); rc = -ENOMEM; goto _error; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-4.3/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-closing-in-virmidi-driver.patch queue-4.3/alsa-hda-fix-bad-dereference-of-jack-object.patch queue-4.3/c8sectpfe-remove-select-on-config_fw_loader_user_helper_fallback.patch queue-4.3/alsa-usb-audio-add-quirk-for-microsoft-lifecam-hd-6000.patch queue-4.3/alsa-rawmidi-remove-kernel-warning-for-null-user-space-buffer-check.patch queue-4.3/alsa-usb-audio-fix-oppo-ha-1-vendor-id.patch queue-4.3/alsa-timer-fix-race-at-concurrent-reads.patch queue-4.3/alsa-hda-fix-static-checker-warning-in-patch_hdmi.c.patch queue-4.3/alsa-seq-fix-lockdep-warnings-due-to-double-mutex-locks.patch queue-4.3/alsa-usb-audio-fix-teac-ud-501-ud-503-nt-503-usb-delay.patch queue-4.3/alsa-timer-fix-wrong-instance-passed-to-slave-callbacks.patch queue-4.3/alsa-hda-implement-loopback-control-switch-for-realtek-and-other-codecs.patch queue-4.3/alsa-seq-degrade-the-error-message-for-too-many-opens.patch queue-4.3/alsa-compress-disable-get_codec_caps-ioctl-for-some-architectures.patch queue-4.3/alsa-rawmidi-make-snd_rawmidi_transmit-race-free.patch queue-4.3/alsa-hda-fix-speaker-output-from-vaio-aio-machines.patch queue-4.3/alsa-bebob-use-a-signed-return-type-for-get_formation_index.patch queue-4.3/alsa-dummy-implement-timer-backend-switching-more-safely.patch queue-4.3/alsa-dummy-disable-switching-timer-backend-via-sysfs.patch queue-4.3/alsa-seq-fix-incorrect-sanity-check-at-snd_seq_oss_synth_cleanup.patch queue-4.3/alsa-seq-fix-yet-another-races-among-alsa-timer-accesses.patch queue-4.3/alsa-usb-audio-avoid-freeing-umidi-object-twice.patch queue-4.3/revert-alsa-hda-fix-noise-on-gigabyte-z170x-mobo.patch queue-4.3/alsa-hda-add-fixup-for-mac-mini-7-1-model.patch queue-4.3/alsa-usb-audio-add-native-dsd-support-for-ps-audio-nuwave-dac.patch queue-4.3/alsa-timer-fix-leftover-link-at-closing.patch queue-4.3/alsa-rawmidi-fix-race-at-copying-updating-the-position.patch queue-4.3/alsa-pcm-fix-potential-deadlock-in-oss-emulation.patch queue-4.3/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