[PATCH 095/241] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix mutex deadlock at disconnection

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date: Thu Dec 13 2012 - 09:06:29 EST


3.5.7.2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

commit 10e44239f67d0b6fb74006e61a7e883b8075247a upstream.

The recent change for USB-audio disconnection race fixes introduced a
mutex deadlock again. There is a circular dependency between
chip->shutdown_rwsem and pcm->open_mutex, depicted like below, when a
device is opened during the disconnection operation:

A. snd_usb_audio_disconnect() ->
card.c::register_mutex ->
chip->shutdown_rwsem (write) ->
snd_card_disconnect() ->
pcm.c::register_mutex ->
pcm->open_mutex

B. snd_pcm_open() ->
pcm->open_mutex ->
snd_usb_pcm_open() ->
chip->shutdown_rwsem (read)

Since the chip->shutdown_rwsem protection in the case A is required
only for turning on the chip->shutdown flag and it doesn't have to be
taken for the whole operation, we can reduce its window in
snd_usb_audio_disconnect().

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/card.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c
index 486b4a6..b3f5ad4 100644
--- a/sound/usb/card.c
+++ b/sound/usb/card.c
@@ -559,9 +559,11 @@ static void snd_usb_audio_disconnect(struct usb_device *dev,
return;

card = chip->card;
- mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
down_write(&chip->shutdown_rwsem);
chip->shutdown = 1;
+ up_write(&chip->shutdown_rwsem);
+
+ mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
chip->num_interfaces--;
if (chip->num_interfaces <= 0) {
snd_card_disconnect(card);
@@ -582,11 +584,9 @@ static void snd_usb_audio_disconnect(struct usb_device *dev,
snd_usb_mixer_disconnect(p);
}
usb_chip[chip->index] = NULL;
- up_write(&chip->shutdown_rwsem);
mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
snd_card_free_when_closed(card);
} else {
- up_write(&chip->shutdown_rwsem);
mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
}
}
--
1.7.9.5

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