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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2020-09-22 10:38:56 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-10-29 09:03:04 +0100
commit92e9a5ca2c6cec0df1c61c03ffd02c4eac4fd741 (patch)
tree584284d83e7b1d84df81a73455d22125651821e2 /sound/core
parentb50a0adaf4bb634250e0e47967c9af21a743f28f (diff)
ALSA: seq: oss: Avoid mutex lock for a long-time ioctl
[ Upstream commit 2759caad2600d503c3b0ed800e7e03d2cd7a4c05 ] Recently we applied a fix to cover the whole OSS sequencer ioctls with the mutex for dealing with the possible races. This works fine in general, but in theory, this may lead to unexpectedly long stall if an ioctl like SNDCTL_SEQ_SYNC is issued and an event with the far future timestamp was queued. For fixing such a potential stall, this patch changes the mutex lock applied conditionally excluding such an ioctl command. Also, change the mutex_lock() with the interruptible version for user to allow escaping from the big-hammer mutex. Fixes: 80982c7e834e ("ALSA: seq: oss: Serialize ioctls") Suggested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922083856.28572-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'sound/core')
-rw-r--r--sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c
index 8044775999ed..4d1548b951c4 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c
@@ -186,9 +186,12 @@ odev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
if (snd_BUG_ON(!dp))
return -ENXIO;
- mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
+ if (cmd != SNDCTL_SEQ_SYNC &&
+ mutex_lock_interruptible(&register_mutex))
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
rc = snd_seq_oss_ioctl(dp, cmd, arg);
- mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
+ if (cmd != SNDCTL_SEQ_SYNC)
+ mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
return rc;
}