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Commit b2483716 authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: pcm: Fix potential deadlock in OSS emulation



There are potential deadlocks in PCM OSS emulation code while
accessing read/write and mmap concurrently.  This comes from the
infamous mmap_sem usage in copy_from/to_user().  Namely,

   snd_pcm_oss_write() ->
     &runtime->oss.params_lock ->
        copy_to_user() ->
          &mm->mmap_sem
  mmap() ->
    &mm->mmap_sem ->
      snd_pcm_oss_mmap() ->
        &runtime->oss.params_lock

Since we can't avoid taking params_lock from mmap code path, use
trylock variant and aborts with -EAGAIN as a workaround of this AB/BA
deadlock.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bVrBKDG0G2_AcUgUQa+X91VKTeS4v+wN7BSHwHtqn3kQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
parent cc85f7a6
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