ALSA: emux: Fix mutex deadlock at unloading
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:50:39 +0000 (14:50 +0200)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:50:39 +0000 (14:50 +0200)
The emux-synth driver has a possible AB/BA mutex deadlock at unloading
the emu10k1 driver:

  snd_emux_free() ->
    snd_emux_detach_seq(): mutex_lock(&emu->register_mutex) ->
      snd_seq_delete_kernel_client() ->
        snd_seq_free_client(): mutex_lock(&register_mutex)

  snd_seq_release() ->
    snd_seq_free_client(): mutex_lock(&register_mutex) ->
      snd_seq_delete_all_ports() ->
        snd_emux_unuse(): mutex_lock(&emu->register_mutex)

Basically snd_emux_detach_seq() doesn't need a protection of
emu->register_mutex as it's already being unregistered.  So, we can
get rid of this for avoiding the deadlock.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/synth/emux/emux_seq.c

index 7778b8e19782e24a3ca56a5aa5dff9e00bf33e4d..188fda0effb0b654fab7a05a60d534fcc7b81141 100644 (file)
@@ -124,12 +124,10 @@ snd_emux_detach_seq(struct snd_emux *emu)
        if (emu->voices)
                snd_emux_terminate_all(emu);
                
-       mutex_lock(&emu->register_mutex);
        if (emu->client >= 0) {
                snd_seq_delete_kernel_client(emu->client);
                emu->client = -1;
        }
-       mutex_unlock(&emu->register_mutex);
 }