ALSA: seq: Don't break snd_use_lock_sync() loop by timeout
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Sun, 9 Apr 2017 08:41:27 +0000 (10:41 +0200)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:03:15 +0000 (14:03 +0200)
commit42860dabff821117bdb1716a938f4e6b0d424965
treeef7330b6c0a5afa04c9fee261fc8460dac8df414
parent28e0ebdd57cd3287ac821068364b74c70af3861c
ALSA: seq: Don't break snd_use_lock_sync() loop by timeout

commit 4e7655fd4f47c23e5249ea260dc802f909a64611 upstream.

The snd_use_lock_sync() (thus its implementation
snd_use_lock_sync_helper()) has the 5 seconds timeout to break out of
the sync loop.  It was introduced from the beginning, just to be
"safer", in terms of avoiding the stupid bugs.

However, as Ben Hutchings suggested, this timeout rather introduces a
potential leak or use-after-free that was apparently fixed by the
commit 2d7d54002e39 ("ALSA: seq: Fix race during FIFO resize"):
for example, snd_seq_fifo_event_in() -> snd_seq_event_dup() ->
copy_from_user() could block for a long time, and snd_use_lock_sync()
goes timeout and still leaves the cell at releasing the pool.

For fixing such a problem, we remove the break by the timeout while
still keeping the warning.

Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
sound/core/seq/seq_lock.c