This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: pcm: Add missing error checks in OSS emulation plugin builder to the 4.4-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-pcm-add-missing-error-checks-in-oss-emulation-plugin-builder.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6708913750344a900f2e73bfe4a4d6dbbce4fe8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:39:27 +0100 Subject: ALSA: pcm: Add missing error checks in OSS emulation plugin builder From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 6708913750344a900f2e73bfe4a4d6dbbce4fe8d upstream. In the OSS emulation plugin builder where the frame size is parsed in the plugin chain, some places miss the possible errors returned from the plugin src_ or dst_frames callback. This patch papers over such places. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c +++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c @@ -591,18 +591,26 @@ snd_pcm_sframes_t snd_pcm_plug_write_tra snd_pcm_sframes_t frames = size; plugin = snd_pcm_plug_first(plug); - while (plugin && frames > 0) { + while (plugin) { + if (frames <= 0) + return frames; if ((next = plugin->next) != NULL) { snd_pcm_sframes_t frames1 = frames; - if (plugin->dst_frames) + if (plugin->dst_frames) { frames1 = plugin->dst_frames(plugin, frames); + if (frames1 <= 0) + return frames1; + } if ((err = next->client_channels(next, frames1, &dst_channels)) < 0) { return err; } if (err != frames1) { frames = err; - if (plugin->src_frames) + if (plugin->src_frames) { frames = plugin->src_frames(plugin, frames1); + if (frames <= 0) + return frames; + } } } else dst_channels = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-remove-incorrect-snd_bug_on-usages.patch queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-fix-inconsistent-format-due-to-incomplete-rule.patch queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-add-missing-error-checks-in-oss-emulation-plugin-builder.patch queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-abort-properly-at-pending-signal-in-oss-read-write-loops.patch queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-allow-aborting-mutex-lock-at-oss-read-write-loops.patch queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-fix-racy-hw-constraints-adjustment.patch queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-release-cable-upon-open-error-path.patch