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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)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:13:25 +0000 (14:13 +0200)
commit4e7655fd4f47c23e5249ea260dc802f909a64611
tree62eb024027ea491fe0c040dc9f0f2d906b6e0643
parent3d016d57fdc5e6caa4cd67896f4b081bccad6e2c
ALSA: seq: Don't break snd_use_lock_sync() loop by timeout

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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/core/seq/seq_lock.c