Patch "ALSA: pcm: Don't treat NULL chmap as a fatal error" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: pcm: Don't treat NULL chmap as a fatal error

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-pcm-don-t-treat-null-chmap-as-a-fatal-error.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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2deaeaf102d692cb6f764123b1df7aa118a8e97c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:20:32 +0200
Subject: ALSA: pcm: Don't treat NULL chmap as a fatal error

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 2deaeaf102d692cb6f764123b1df7aa118a8e97c upstream.

The standard PCM chmap helper callbacks treat the NULL info->chmap as
a fatal error and spews the kernel warning with stack trace when
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is on.  This was OK, originally it was supposed to be
always static and non-NULL.  But, as the recent addition of Intel LPE
audio driver shows, the chmap content may vary dynamically, and it can
be even NULL when disconnected.  The user still sees the kernel
warning unnecessarily.

For clearing such a confusion, this patch simply removes the
snd_BUG_ON() in each place, just returns an error without warning.

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

---
 sound/core/pcm_lib.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2491,7 +2491,7 @@ static int pcm_chmap_ctl_get(struct snd_
 	struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
 	const struct snd_pcm_chmap_elem *map;
 
-	if (snd_BUG_ON(!info->chmap))
+	if (!info->chmap)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	substream = snd_pcm_chmap_substream(info, idx);
 	if (!substream)
@@ -2523,7 +2523,7 @@ static int pcm_chmap_ctl_tlv(struct snd_
 	unsigned int __user *dst;
 	int c, count = 0;
 
-	if (snd_BUG_ON(!info->chmap))
+	if (!info->chmap)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (size < 8)
 		return -ENOMEM;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@suse.de are

queue-4.9/alsa-pcm-don-t-treat-null-chmap-as-a-fatal-error.patch
queue-4.9/alsa-firewire-lib-fix-stall-of-process-context-at-packet-error.patch