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

ALSA: hda: Drop useless WARN_ON()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: alsa-hda-drop-useless-warn_on.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 a36c2638380c0a4676647a1f553b70b20d3ebce1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:45:07 +0100 Subject: ALSA: hda: Drop useless WARN_ON()

From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de

commit a36c2638380c0a4676647a1f553b70b20d3ebce1 upstream.

Since the commit 97cc2ed27e5a ("ALSA: hda - Fix yet another i915 pointer leftover in error path") cleared hdac_acomp pointer, the WARN_ON() non-NULL check in snd_hdac_i915_register_notifier() may give a false-positive warning, as the function gets called no matter whether the component is registered or not. For fixing it, let's get rid of the spurious WARN_ON().

Fixes: 97cc2ed27e5a ("ALSA: hda - Fix yet another i915 pointer leftover in error path") Reported-by: Kouta Okamoto kouta.okamoto@toshiba.co.jp Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- sound/hda/hdac_i915.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int hdac_component_master_match(s */ int snd_hdac_i915_register_notifier(const struct i915_audio_component_audio_ops *aops) { - if (WARN_ON(!hdac_acomp)) + if (!hdac_acomp) return -ENODEV;

hdac_acomp->audio_ops = aops;

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

queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-fix-the-missing-ctl-name-suffix-at-parsing-su.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-drop-useless-warn_on.patch queue-4.4/alsa-rawmidi-avoid-racy-info-ioctl-via-ctl-device.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-fix-headset-mic-detection-issue-on-a-dell-machine.patch queue-4.4/acpi-apei-erst-fix-missing-error-handling-in-erst_reader.patch