[PATCH 3.10 02/19] ALSA: emux: Fix mutex deadlock at unloading

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 11 2015 - 14:47:07 EST


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

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

commit 07b0e5d49d227e3950cb13a3e8caf248ef2a310e upstream.

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.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
sound/synth/emux/emux_seq.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/synth/emux/emux_seq.c
+++ b/sound/synth/emux/emux_seq.c
@@ -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);
}




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