From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759610AbcCDQNQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:13:16 -0500 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:60616 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759511AbcCDQCt (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:02:49 -0500 Message-Id: <20160304153002.325849903@1wt.eu> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:30:37 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Takashi Iwai , Ben Hutchings , Willy Tarreau Subject: [PATCH 2.6.32 37/55] ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 In-Reply-To: <148ee355b419e9976ca727513a1405c8@local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takashi Iwai 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 [bwh: Backported to 3.2: this was still using snd_printk()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau --- sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c index 1f133fe..335b7e1 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ snd_seq_oss_open(struct file *file, int level) dp->index = i; if (i >= SNDRV_SEQ_OSS_MAX_CLIENTS) { - snd_printk(KERN_ERR "too many applications\n"); + pr_debug("ALSA: seq_oss: too many applications\n"); rc = -ENOMEM; goto _error; } -- 1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty