2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshi...@ispras.ru>

A deadlock can be initiated by userspace via ioctl(SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND)
on /dev/sequencer with TMR_ECHO midi event.

In this case the control flow is:
sound_ioctl()
-> case SND_DEV_SEQ:
   case SND_DEV_SEQ2:
     sequencer_ioctl()
     -> case SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND:
          spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags);
          play_event();
          -> case EV_TIMING:
               seq_timing_event()
               -> case TMR_ECHO:
                    seq_copy_to_input()
                    -> spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags);

It seems that spin_lock_irqsave() around play_event() is not necessary,
because the only other call location in seq_startplay() makes the call
without acquiring spinlock.

So, the patch just removes spinlocks around play_event().
By the way, it removes unreachable code in seq_timing_event(),
since (seq_mode == SEQ_2) case is handled in the beginning.

Compile tested only.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshi...@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
(cherry picked from commit bc26d4d06e337ade069f33d3f4377593b24e6e36)
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu>
---
 sound/oss/sequencer.c | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/oss/sequencer.c b/sound/oss/sequencer.c
index 5cb171d..7d32997 100644
--- a/sound/oss/sequencer.c
+++ b/sound/oss/sequencer.c
@@ -677,13 +677,8 @@ static int seq_timing_event(unsigned char *event_rec)
                        break;
 
                case TMR_ECHO:
-                       if (seq_mode == SEQ_2)
-                               seq_copy_to_input(event_rec, 8);
-                       else
-                       {
-                               parm = (parm << 8 | SEQ_ECHO);
-                               seq_copy_to_input((unsigned char *) &parm, 4);
-                       }
+                       parm = (parm << 8 | SEQ_ECHO);
+                       seq_copy_to_input((unsigned char *) &parm, 4);
                        break;
 
                default:;
@@ -1326,7 +1321,6 @@ int sequencer_ioctl(int dev, struct file *file, unsigned 
int cmd, void __user *a
        int mode = translate_mode(file);
        struct synth_info inf;
        struct seq_event_rec event_rec;
-       unsigned long flags;
        int __user *p = arg;
 
        orig_dev = dev = dev >> 4;
@@ -1481,9 +1475,7 @@ int sequencer_ioctl(int dev, struct file *file, unsigned 
int cmd, void __user *a
                case SNDCTL_SEQ_OUTOFBAND:
                        if (copy_from_user(&event_rec, arg, sizeof(event_rec)))
                                return -EFAULT;
-                       spin_lock_irqsave(&lock,flags);
                        play_event(event_rec.arr);
-                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock,flags);
                        return 0;
 
                case SNDCTL_MIDI_INFO:
-- 
1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty



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