[alsa-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: rawmidi: Avoid bit fields for state flags

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Fri Feb 14 12:13:16 CET 2020


The rawmidi state flags (opened, append, active_sensing) are stored in
bit fields that can be potentially racy when concurrently accessed
without any locks.  Although the current code should be fine, there is
also no any real benefit by keeping the bitfields for this kind of
short number of members.

This patch changes those bit fields flags to the simple bool fields.
There should be no size increase of the snd_rawmidi_substream by this
change.

Reported-by: syzbot+576cc007eb9f2c968200 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 include/sound/rawmidi.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sound/rawmidi.h b/include/sound/rawmidi.h
index 40ab20439fee..a36b7227a15a 100644
--- a/include/sound/rawmidi.h
+++ b/include/sound/rawmidi.h
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ struct snd_rawmidi_substream {
 	struct list_head list;		/* list of all substream for given stream */
 	int stream;			/* direction */
 	int number;			/* substream number */
-	unsigned int opened: 1,		/* open flag */
-		     append: 1,		/* append flag (merge more streams) */
-		     active_sensing: 1; /* send active sensing when close */
+	bool opened;			/* open flag */
+	bool append;			/* append flag (merge more streams) */
+	bool active_sensing;		/* send active sensing when close */
 	int use_count;			/* use counter (for output) */
 	size_t bytes;
 	struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi;
-- 
2.16.4



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