Re: 2.6.7-mm6: system hang with KAMix on dual Opteron w/ NUMA

[R. J. Wysocki]

On Thursday 08 of July 2004 23:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  I've just discovered that I'm (consistently) able to hang the system
> > solid by trying to adjust the sound volume using KAMix on 2.6.7-mm6 (SuSE
> > 9.1/ AMD64).
>
> Please ensure that your kernel has this patch:
>
> --- 25/sound/core/control.c~snd_ctl_read-locking-fix-fix	2004-07-06
> 21:27:51.618683360 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/sound/core/control.c	2004-07-06
> 21:27:51.622682752 -0700 @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static ssize_t
> snd_ctl_read(struct file
>  			wait_queue_t wait;
>  			if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) != 0 || result > 0) {
>  				err = -EAGAIN;
> -				goto out;
> +				goto __end;
>  			}
>  			init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current);
>  			add_wait_queue(&ctl->change_sleep, &wait);
> @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_ctl_read(struct file
>  		kfree(kev);
>  		if (copy_to_user(buffer, &ev, sizeof(snd_ctl_event_t))) {
>  			err = -EFAULT;
> -			goto __end;
> +			goto out;
>  		}
>  		spin_lock_irq(&ctl->read_lock);
>  		buffer += sizeof(snd_ctl_event_t);
> _

It hadn't and the patch fixed the issue. :-)

Thanks,
rjw

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