3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> commit bc26d4d06e337ade069f33d3f4377593b24e6e36 upstream. A deadlock can be initiated by userspace via ioctl(SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND) on /dev/sequencer with TMR_ECHO midi event. In this case the control flow is: sound_ioctl() -> case SND_DEV_SEQ: case SND_DEV_SEQ2: sequencer_ioctl() -> case SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND: spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags); play_event(); -> case EV_TIMING: seq_timing_event() -> case TMR_ECHO: seq_copy_to_input() -> spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags); It seems that spin_lock_irqsave() around play_event() is not necessary, because the only other call location in seq_startplay() makes the call without acquiring spinlock. So, the patch just removes spinlocks around play_event(). By the way, it removes unreachable code in seq_timing_event(), since (seq_mode == SEQ_2) case is handled in the beginning. Compile tested only. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/oss/sequencer.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/sound/oss/sequencer.c +++ b/sound/oss/sequencer.c @@ -683,13 +683,8 @@ static int seq_timing_event(unsigned cha break; case TMR_ECHO: - if (seq_mode == SEQ_2) - seq_copy_to_input(event_rec, 8); - else - { - parm = (parm << 8 | SEQ_ECHO); - seq_copy_to_input((unsigned char *) &parm, 4); - } + parm = (parm << 8 | SEQ_ECHO); + seq_copy_to_input((unsigned char *) &parm, 4); break; default:; @@ -1330,7 +1325,6 @@ int sequencer_ioctl(int dev, struct file int mode = translate_mode(file); struct synth_info inf; struct seq_event_rec event_rec; - unsigned long flags; int __user *p = arg; orig_dev = dev = dev >> 4; @@ -1485,9 +1479,7 @@ int sequencer_ioctl(int dev, struct file case SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND: if (copy_from_user(&event_rec, arg, sizeof(event_rec))) return -EFAULT; - spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags); play_event(event_rec.arr); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock,flags); return 0; case SNDCTL_MIDI_INFO: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html