This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: usb-audio: Fix bogus error return in snd_usb_create_stream() to the 4.9-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-usb-audio-fix-bogus-error-return-in-snd_usb_create_stream.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4763601a56f155ddf94ef35fc2c41504a2de15f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 22:28:40 +0100 Subject: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix bogus error return in snd_usb_create_stream() From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 4763601a56f155ddf94ef35fc2c41504a2de15f5 upstream. The function returns -EINVAL even if it builds the stream properly. The bogus error code sneaked in during the code refactoring, but it wasn't noticed until now since the returned error code itself is ignored in anyway. Kill it here, but there is no behavior change by this patch, obviously. Fixes: e5779998bf8b ('ALSA: usb-audio: refactor code') Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/usb/card.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/usb/card.c +++ b/sound/usb/card.c @@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ static int snd_usb_create_stream(struct if (! snd_usb_parse_audio_interface(chip, interface)) { usb_set_interface(dev, interface, 0); /* reset the current interface */ usb_driver_claim_interface(&usb_audio_driver, iface, (void *)-1L); - return -EINVAL; } return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/alsa-hda-fix-up-gpio-for-asus-rog-ranger.patch queue-4.9/alsa-hda-apply-asus-mode8-fixup-to-asus-x71sl.patch queue-4.9/alsa-usb-audio-fix-bogus-error-return-in-snd_usb_create_stream.patch queue-4.9/alsa-usb-audio-fix-irq-process-data-synchronization.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