ALSA: seq: oss: Fix data-race for max_midi_devs access
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 07:27:16 +0000 (09:27 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:39:45 +0000 (12:39 +0200)
commit9d8b475df8f799b1001394eb93a7dfdeaccc45ea
treec173f4ec4bb82d847db42752fcd34f0ce714461a
parenta8758c8a56629e4487fb18ca42f838416a7a71b9
ALSA: seq: oss: Fix data-race for max_midi_devs access

commit 22dec134dbfa825b963f8a1807ad19b943e46a56 upstream.

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@columbia.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAEHB2493pZRXs863w58QWnUTtv3HHfg85aYhLn5HJHCwxqtHQg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823072717.1706-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_midi.c