The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From e15dc99dbb9cf99f6432e8e3c0b3a8f7a3403a86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 11:48:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Fix endless loop for XRUN recovery in OSS
emulation
The commit 02a5d6925cd3 ("ALSA: pcm: Avoid potential races between OSS
ioctls and read/write") split the PCM preparation code to a locked
version, and it added a sanity check of runtime->oss.prepare flag
along with the change. This leaded to an endless loop when the stream
gets XRUN: namely, snd_pcm_oss_write3() and co call
snd_pcm_oss_prepare() without setting runtime->oss.prepare flag and
the loop continues until the PCM state reaches to another one.
As the function is supposed to execute the preparation
unconditionally, drop the invalid state check there.
The bug was triggered by syzkaller.
Fixes: 02a5d6925cd3 ("ALSA: pcm: Avoid potential races between OSS ioctls and read/write")
Reported-by: syzbot+150189c103427d31a053@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: syzbot+7e3f31a52646f939c052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: syzbot+4f2016cf5185da7759dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
diff --git a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
index 481ab0e94ffa..1980f68246cb 100644
--- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
@@ -1128,13 +1128,14 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_get_active_substream(struct snd_pcm_oss_file *pcm_oss_fil
}
/* call with params_lock held */
+/* NOTE: this always call PREPARE unconditionally no matter whether
+ * runtime->oss.prepare is set or not
+ */
static int snd_pcm_oss_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
{
int err;
struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
- if (!runtime->oss.prepare)
- return 0;
err = snd_pcm_kernel_ioctl(substream, SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPARE, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
pcm_dbg(substream->pcm,