From 1f20f9ff57ca23b9f5502fca85ce3977e8496cb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:10:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: seq: Fix nested rwsem annotation for lockdep splat syzkaller reported the lockdep splat due to the possible deadlock of grp->list_mutex of each sequencer client object. Actually this is rather a false-positive report due to the missing nested lock annotations. The sequencer client may deliver the event directly to another client which takes another own lock. For addressing this issue, this patch replaces the simple down_read() with down_read_nested(). As a lock subclass, the already existing "hop" can be re-used, which indicates the depth of the call. Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/089e082686ac9b482e055c832617@google.com Reported-by: syzbot Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c index 6c9cba2166d9..d10c780dfd54 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ static int deliver_to_subscribers(struct snd_seq_client *client, if (atomic) read_lock(&grp->list_lock); else - down_read(&grp->list_mutex); + down_read_nested(&grp->list_mutex, hop); list_for_each_entry(subs, &grp->list_head, src_list) { /* both ports ready? */ if (atomic_read(&subs->ref_count) != 2) -- 2.20.1