[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: retrieve true appl_ptr where stream was unlocked

Oskar Schirmer oskar at scara.com
Tue Nov 12 17:14:17 CET 2013


Calculated for data transfer, the local variable appl_ptr is reused,
changed and written back later, though the lock was not held during
the transfer earlier. Admitted, destiny of the lock is not obvious
at all, but this looks much like a race condition candidate, so make
sure to have some original appl_ptr value to work on.

Two occurences.

Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <oskar at scara.com>
---
 sound/core/pcm_lib.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
index 6e03b46..47e836a 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2051,6 +2051,7 @@ static snd_pcm_sframes_t snd_pcm_lib_write1(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 		default:
 			break;
 		}
+		appl_ptr = runtime->control->appl_ptr;
 		appl_ptr += frames;
 		if (appl_ptr >= runtime->boundary)
 			appl_ptr -= runtime->boundary;
@@ -2283,6 +2284,7 @@ static snd_pcm_sframes_t snd_pcm_lib_read1(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 		default:
 			break;
 		}
+		appl_ptr = runtime->control->appl_ptr;
 		appl_ptr += frames;
 		if (appl_ptr >= runtime->boundary)
 			appl_ptr -= runtime->boundary;
-- 
1.7.9.5



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