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ALSA: seq: Don't break snd_use_lock_sync() loop by timeout
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Sun, 9 Apr 2017 08:41:27 +0000 (10:41 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 May 2017 15:36:38 +0000 (08:36 -0700)
commit59f83369d44cb5f718a1ed54136237b737eaa18f
tree510907ee7908c4be833ec1c7d3b715fb29f85c26
parent26b9b1565baff9be66a3aff29e08a1251f5c1bb6
ALSA: seq: Don't break snd_use_lock_sync() loop by timeout

commit 4e7655fd4f47c23e5249ea260dc802f909a64611 upstream.

The snd_use_lock_sync() (thus its implementation
snd_use_lock_sync_helper()) has the 5 seconds timeout to break out of
the sync loop.  It was introduced from the beginning, just to be
"safer", in terms of avoiding the stupid bugs.

However, as Ben Hutchings suggested, this timeout rather introduces a
potential leak or use-after-free that was apparently fixed by the
commit 2d7d54002e39 ("ALSA: seq: Fix race during FIFO resize"):
for example, snd_seq_fifo_event_in() -> snd_seq_event_dup() ->
copy_from_user() could block for a long time, and snd_use_lock_sync()
goes timeout and still leaves the cell at releasing the pool.

For fixing such a problem, we remove the break by the timeout while
still keeping the warning.

Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sound/core/seq/seq_lock.c