sound/oss: fix deadlock in sequencer_ioctl(SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND)
authorAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:53:25 +0000 (02:53 +0300)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Sat, 18 Apr 2015 07:05:55 +0000 (09:05 +0200)
commitbc26d4d06e337ade069f33d3f4377593b24e6e36
treef575da72a0288b57034db2c091cc67bfed7c0982
parent43c499dc2778b96e21ed14e1a71e7b117a0b406f
sound/oss: fix deadlock in sequencer_ioctl(SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND)

A deadlock can be initiated by userspace via ioctl(SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND)
on /dev/sequencer with TMR_ECHO midi event.

In this case the control flow is:
sound_ioctl()
-> case SND_DEV_SEQ:
   case SND_DEV_SEQ2:
     sequencer_ioctl()
     -> case SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND:
          spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags);
          play_event();
          -> case EV_TIMING:
               seq_timing_event()
               -> case TMR_ECHO:
                    seq_copy_to_input()
                    -> spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags);

It seems that spin_lock_irqsave() around play_event() is not necessary,
because the only other call location in seq_startplay() makes the call
without acquiring spinlock.

So, the patch just removes spinlocks around play_event().
By the way, it removes unreachable code in seq_timing_event(),
since (seq_mode == SEQ_2) case is handled in the beginning.

Compile tested only.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/oss/sequencer.c