linux-kernel - Re: Stable backport request (was: [PATCH v5 0/4] ASoC: qcom: volume fixes and codec cleanups)

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Message-ID: <2024020351-tactics-discover-9091@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 08:04:01 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	Banajit Goswami <bgoswami@...cinc.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	linux-sound@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable backport request (was: [PATCH v5 0/4] ASoC: qcom: volume
 fixes and codec cleanups)

On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 09:36:14AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Hi Greg and Sasha,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 09:54:15PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:18:15 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > > To reduce the risk of speaker damage the PA gain needs to be limited on
> > > > machines like the Lenovo Thinkpad X13s until we have active speaker
> > > > protection in place.
> > > > 
> > > > Limit the gain to the current default setting provided by the UCM
> > > > configuration which most user have so far been using (due to a bug in
> > > > the configuration files which prevented hardware volume control [1]).
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Applied to
> > > 
> > >    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-next
> > 
> > alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.11 was released yesterday, which means that it is now
> > very urgent to get the speaker volume limitation backported to the
> > stable trees.
> > 
> > Could you please try to make sure that these fixes get to Linus this
> > week?
> 
> This series (and a related headphone codec fix) were merged into Linus's
> tree yesterday.
> 
> I saw that the 6.7.4 stable patches were sent out for review over night,
> but could it be possible to squeeze in also the following four fixes in
> 6.7.4 (and 6.6.16)?
> 
> 	c481016bb4f8 ASoC: qcom: sc8280xp: limit speaker volumes
> 	4d0e8bdfa4a5 ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: fix headphones volume controls
> 	46188db080bd ASoC: codecs: lpass-wsa-macro: fix compander volume hack
> 	b53cc6144a3f ASoC: codecs: wsa883x: fix PA volume control
> 
> These are needed for proper volume control and, importantly, to prevent
> users of the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s from potentially damaging their
> speakers when the distros ship the latest UCM configuration files which
> were released on Monday.

All now queued up for this round, thanks.

greg k-h