This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: seq: Enable 'use' locking in all configurations to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alsa-seq-enable-use-locking-in-all-configurations.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8009d506a1dd00cf436b0c4cca0dcec130580a21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:45:49 +0100 Subject: ALSA: seq: Enable 'use' locking in all configurations From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8009d506a1dd00cf436b0c4cca0dcec130580a21 upstream. The 'use' locking macros are no-ops if neither SMP or SND_DEBUG is enabled. This might once have been OK in non-preemptible configurations, but even in that case snd_seq_read() may sleep while relying on a 'use' lock. So always use the proper implementations. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/seq/seq_lock.c | 4 ---- sound/core/seq/seq_lock.h | 12 ------------ 2 files changed, 16 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_lock.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_lock.c @@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ #include <sound/core.h> #include "seq_lock.h" -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_SND_DEBUG) - /* wait until all locks are released */ void snd_use_lock_sync_helper(snd_use_lock_t *lockp, const char *file, int line) { @@ -42,5 +40,3 @@ void snd_use_lock_sync_helper(snd_use_lo } EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_use_lock_sync_helper); - -#endif --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_lock.h +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_lock.h @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_SND_DEBUG) - typedef atomic_t snd_use_lock_t; /* initialize lock */ @@ -20,14 +18,4 @@ typedef atomic_t snd_use_lock_t; void snd_use_lock_sync_helper(snd_use_lock_t *lock, const char *file, int line); #define snd_use_lock_sync(lockp) snd_use_lock_sync_helper(lockp, __BASE_FILE__, __LINE__) -#else /* SMP || CONFIG_SND_DEBUG */ - -typedef spinlock_t snd_use_lock_t; /* dummy */ -#define snd_use_lock_init(lockp) /**/ -#define snd_use_lock_use(lockp) /**/ -#define snd_use_lock_free(lockp) /**/ -#define snd_use_lock_sync(lockp) /**/ - -#endif /* SMP || CONFIG_SND_DEBUG */ - #endif /* __SND_SEQ_LOCK_H */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/alsa-seq-enable-use-locking-in-all-configurations.patch