It's been reported that there is a possible data-race accessing to the global card_requested[] array at ALSA sequencer core, which is used for determining whether to call request_module() for the card or not. This data race itself is almost harmless, as it might end up with one extra request_module() call for the already loaded module at most. But it's still better to fix.
This patch addresses the possible data race of card_requested[] and client_requested[] arrays by replacing them with bitmask. It's an atomic operation and can work without locks.
Reported-by: Abhishek Shah abhishek.shah@columbia.edu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAEHB24_ay6YzARpA1zgCsE7=H9CSJJzux618E=Ka4h0YdKn=q... Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c index 2e9d695d336c..052a690b5e11 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c @@ -121,13 +121,13 @@ struct snd_seq_client *snd_seq_client_use_ptr(int clientid) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clients_lock, flags); #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES if (!in_interrupt()) { - static char client_requested[SNDRV_SEQ_GLOBAL_CLIENTS]; - static char card_requested[SNDRV_CARDS]; + static DECLARE_BITMAP(client_requested, SNDRV_SEQ_GLOBAL_CLIENTS); + static DECLARE_BITMAP(card_requested, SNDRV_CARDS); + if (clientid < SNDRV_SEQ_GLOBAL_CLIENTS) { int idx; - if (!client_requested[clientid]) { - client_requested[clientid] = 1; + if (!test_and_set_bit(clientid, client_requested)) { for (idx = 0; idx < 15; idx++) { if (seq_client_load[idx] < 0) break; @@ -142,10 +142,8 @@ struct snd_seq_client *snd_seq_client_use_ptr(int clientid) int card = (clientid - SNDRV_SEQ_GLOBAL_CLIENTS) / SNDRV_SEQ_CLIENTS_PER_CARD; if (card < snd_ecards_limit) { - if (! card_requested[card]) { - card_requested[card] = 1; + if (!test_and_set_bit(card_requested, card)) snd_request_card(card); - } snd_seq_device_load_drivers(); } }