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Commit 816f318b authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: rawmidi: Fix possible deadlock with virmidi registration

When a seq-virmidi driver is initialized, it registers a rawmidi
instance with its callback to create an associated seq kernel client.
Currently it's done throughly in rawmidi's register_mutex context.
Recently it was found that this may lead to a deadlock another rawmidi
device that is being attached with the sequencer is accessed, as both
open with the same register_mutex.  This was actually triggered by
syzkaller, as Dmitry Vyukov reported:

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 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 4.8.0-rc1+ #11 Not tainted
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 syz-executor/7154 is trying to acquire lock:
  (register_mutex#5){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff84fd6d4b>] snd_rawmidi_kernel_open+0x4b/0x260 sound/core/rawmidi.c:341

 but task is already holding lock:
  (&grp->list_mutex){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff850138bb>] check_and_subscribe_port+0x5b/0x5c0 sound/core/seq/seq_port...
parent 9f8a7658
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