[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix broken compat timer user status ioctl" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: timer: Fix broken compat timer user status ioctl

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt17.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:36:14 +0100
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix broken compat timer user status ioctl

commit 3a72494ac2a3bd229db941d51e7efe2f6ccd947b upstream.

The timer user status compat ioctl returned the bogus struct used for
64bit architectures instead of the 32bit one.  This patch addresses
it to return the proper struct.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/timer_compat.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer_compat.c b/sound/core/timer_compat.c
index e05802a..8e7eddf 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer_compat.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer_compat.c
@@ -70,13 +70,14 @@ static int snd_timer_user_status_compat(struct file *file,
 					struct snd_timer_status32 __user *_status)
 {
 	struct snd_timer_user *tu;
-	struct snd_timer_status status;
+	struct snd_timer_status32 status;

 	tu = file->private_data;
 	if (snd_BUG_ON(!tu->timeri))
 		return -ENXIO;
 	memset(&status, 0, sizeof(status));
-	status.tstamp = tu->tstamp;
+	status.tstamp.tv_sec = tu->tstamp.tv_sec;
+	status.tstamp.tv_nsec = tu->tstamp.tv_nsec;
 	status.resolution = snd_timer_resolution(tu->timeri);
 	status.lost = tu->timeri->lost;
 	status.overrun = tu->overrun;
--
2.7.0