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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 09:57:41 +0100
commitf70650083b9ee31b9b291d39d533b2f3577adec3 (patch)
tree231f50be40556d10a30900d1962e2dbe4e622b29 /sound
parent6f04266d084d4a0d034831621302569e82e1b9e6 (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')
-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 c8b9c0b315d8..250a92b18726 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss.c
@@ -174,9 +174,12 @@ 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;
}