The fix for the racy writes and ioctls to sequencer widened the
application of client->ioctl_mutex to the whole write loop. Although
it does unlock/relock for the lengthy operation like the event dup,
the loop keeps the ioctl_mutex for the whole time in other
situations. This may take quite long time if the user-space would
give a huge buffer, and this is a likely cause of some weird behavior
spotted by syzcaller fuzzer.
This patch puts a simple workaround, just adding a mutex break in the
loop when a large number of events have been processed. This
shouldn't hit any performance drop because the threshold is set high
enough for usual operations.
Fixes: 7bd8009156 ("ALSA: seq: More protection for concurrent write and ioctl races")
Reported-by: syzbot+97aae04ce27e39cbfca9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+4c595632b98bb8ffcc66@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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