ALSA: emux: Fix mutex deadlock in OSS emulation
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:11:44 +0000 (17:11 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 May 2015 12:15:41 +0000 (05:15 -0700)
commitc542e91572c54d2127ab3da723a922893fef1fb6
tree9bbe97a3c7c9cabce7fe14daa57a06ab9d8929d0
parentc19e77907dc450c69028c03c4058e5a5688ab2a9
ALSA: emux: Fix mutex deadlock in OSS emulation

commit 1c94e65c668f44d2c69ae7e7fc268ab3268fba3e upstream.

The OSS emulation in synth-emux helper has a potential AB/BA deadlock
at the simultaneous closing and opening:

  close ->
    snd_seq_release() ->
      sne_seq_free_client() ->
        snd_seq_delete_all_ports(): takes client->ports_mutex ->
  port_delete() ->
    snd_emux_unuse(): takes emux->register_mutex

  open ->
    snd_seq_oss_open() ->
      snd_emux_open_seq_oss(): takes emux->register_mutex ->
        snd_seq_event_port_attach() ->
  snd_seq_create_port(): takes client->ports_mutex

This patch addresses the deadlock by reducing the rance taking
emux->register_mutex in snd_emux_open_seq_oss().  The lock is needed
for the refcount handling, so move it locally.  The calls in
emux_seq.c are already with the mutex, thus they are replaced with the
version without mutex lock/unlock.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sound/synth/emux/emux_oss.c
sound/synth/emux/emux_seq.c