The fields 'opened', 'running', 'assigned_key' are all protected by a spinlock, but the spinlock is not taken when looking for a stream. This can result in a possible race between assign() and release(). Fix by taking the spinlock before walking through the bus stream list. Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/hda/hdac_stream.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c b/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c index 1eb8563db2df..9867555883c3 100644 --- a/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ struct hdac_stream *snd_hdac_stream_assign(struct hdac_bus *bus, int key = (substream->pcm->device << 16) | (substream->number << 2) | (substream->stream + 1); + spin_lock_irq(&bus->reg_lock); list_for_each_entry(azx_dev, &bus->stream_list, list) { if (azx_dev->direction != substream->stream) continue; @@ -309,13 +310,12 @@ struct hdac_stream *snd_hdac_stream_assign(struct hdac_bus *bus, res = azx_dev; } if (res) { - spin_lock_irq(&bus->reg_lock); res->opened = 1; res->running = 0; res->assigned_key = key; res->substream = substream; - spin_unlock_irq(&bus->reg_lock); } + spin_unlock_irq(&bus->reg_lock); return res; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_hdac_stream_assign); -- 2.25.1