[PATCH 4.4 035/117] ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-14T22:25:04Z

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;
}