[PATCH 1/2] ALSA: seq: oss: Fix data-race for max_midi_devs access
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Tue Aug 23 09:27:16 CEST 2022
ALSA OSS sequencer refers to a global variable max_midi_devs at
creating a new port, storing it to its own field. Meanwhile this
variable may be changed by other sequencer events at
snd_seq_oss_midi_check_exit_port() in parallel, which may cause a data
race.
OTOH, this data race itself is almost harmless, as the access to the
MIDI device is done via get_mdev() and it's protected with a refcount,
hence its presence is guaranteed.
Though, it's sill better to address the data-race from the code sanity
POV, and this patch adds the proper spinlock for the protection.
Reported-by: Abhishek Shah <abhishek.shah at columbia.edu>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAEHB2493pZRXs863w58QWnUTtv3HHfg85aYhLn5HJHCwxqtHQg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c
index 1e3bf086f867..07efb38f58ac 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c
@@ -270,7 +270,9 @@ snd_seq_oss_midi_clear_all(void)
void
snd_seq_oss_midi_setup(struct seq_oss_devinfo *dp)
{
+ spin_lock_irq(®ister_lock);
dp->max_mididev = max_midi_devs;
+ spin_unlock_irq(®ister_lock);
}
/*
--
2.35.3
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