[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 18/30] ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 16:42:45 EST


3.13.11-ckt35 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxx>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: context ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 b3f39b5..caa68d5 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_init.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ 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");
+ snd_printk(KERN_DEBUG "too many applications\n");
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto _error;
}
--
1.9.1