Patch "ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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 4.4-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-seq-degrade-the-error-message-for-too-many-opens.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From da10816e3d923565b470fec78a674baba794ed33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:24:56 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 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@suse.de are

queue-4.4/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-closing-in-virmidi-driver.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-fix-bad-dereference-of-jack-object.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-add-quirk-for-microsoft-lifecam-hd-6000.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-rawmidi-remove-kernel-warning-for-null-user-space-buffer-check.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-fix-oppo-ha-1-vendor-id.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-race-at-concurrent-reads.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-realtek-support-dell-headset-mode-for-alc225.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-fix-static-checker-warning-in-patch_hdmi.c.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-seq-fix-lockdep-warnings-due-to-double-mutex-locks.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-fix-teac-ud-501-ud-503-nt-503-usb-delay.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-wrong-instance-passed-to-slave-callbacks.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-disable-dynamic-clock-gating-on-broxton-before-reset.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-realtek-support-headset-mode-for-alc225.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-implement-loopback-control-switch-for-realtek-and-other-codecs.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-realtek-new-codec-support-of-alc225.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-seq-degrade-the-error-message-for-too-many-opens.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-compress-disable-get_codec_caps-ioctl-for-some-architectures.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-rawmidi-make-snd_rawmidi_transmit-race-free.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-fix-speaker-output-from-vaio-aio-machines.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-bebob-use-a-signed-return-type-for-get_formation_index.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-add-missing-dependency-on-config_snd_timer.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-dummy-implement-timer-backend-switching-more-safely.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-dummy-disable-switching-timer-backend-via-sysfs.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-seq-fix-incorrect-sanity-check-at-snd_seq_oss_synth_cleanup.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-seq-fix-yet-another-races-among-alsa-timer-accesses.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-avoid-freeing-umidi-object-twice.patch
queue-4.4/revert-alsa-hda-fix-noise-on-gigabyte-z170x-mobo.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-add-fixup-for-mac-mini-7-1-model.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-add-native-dsd-support-for-ps-audio-nuwave-dac.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-leftover-link-at-closing.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-rawmidi-fix-race-at-copying-updating-the-position.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-fix-potential-deadlock-in-oss-emulation.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-link-corruption-due-to-double-start-or-stop.patch