linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 16/67] ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too many opens

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Message-ID: <lsq.1456263723.893918920@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:42:03 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 16/67] ALSA: seq: Degrade the error message for too
 many opens

3.2.78-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.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@...e.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: this was still using snd_printk()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 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
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ snd_seq_oss_open(struct file *file, int
 
 	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;
 	}