[PATCH] ALSA: ctl: Fix copy of updated id with element read/write
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Thu Dec 2 16:46:15 CET 2021
On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:06:07 +0100,
Alan Young wrote:
>
> When control_compat.c:copy_ctl_value_to_user() is used, by
> ctl_elem_read_user() & ctl_elem_write_user(), it must also copy back the
> snd_ctl_elem_id value that may have been updated (filled in) by the call
> to snd_ctl_elem_read/snd_ctl_elem_write().
>
> This matches the functionality provided by snd_ctl_elem_read_user() and
> snd_ctl_elem_write_user(), via snd_ctl_build_ioff().
>
> Without this, and without making additional calls to snd_ctl_info()
> which are unnecessary when using the non-compat calls, a userspace
> application will not know the numid value for the element and
> consequently will not be able to use the poll/read interface on the
> control file to determine which elements have updates.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Young <consult.awy at gmail.com>
Thanks, applied (with Cc to stable).
Takashi
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