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-rw-r--r--sound/core/pcm_native.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
index a4d92e46c459..f08772568c17 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@ static snd_pcm_sframes_t forward_appl_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	return ret < 0 ? ret : frames;
 }
 
-/* decrease the appl_ptr; returns the processed frames or a negative error */
+/* decrease the appl_ptr; returns the processed frames or zero for error */
 static snd_pcm_sframes_t rewind_appl_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 					 snd_pcm_uframes_t frames,
 					 snd_pcm_sframes_t avail)
@@ -2597,7 +2597,12 @@ static snd_pcm_sframes_t rewind_appl_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	if (appl_ptr < 0)
 		appl_ptr += runtime->boundary;
 	ret = pcm_lib_apply_appl_ptr(substream, appl_ptr);
-	return ret < 0 ? ret : frames;
+	/* NOTE: we return zero for errors because PulseAudio gets depressed
+	 * upon receiving an error from rewind ioctl and stops processing
+	 * any longer.  Returning zero means that no rewind is done, so
+	 * it's not absolutely wrong to answer like that.
+	 */
+	return ret < 0 ? 0 : frames;
 }
 
 static snd_pcm_sframes_t snd_pcm_playback_rewind(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,