linux/sound/core/seq/oss
Kosuke Tatsukawa 694470273d ALSA: seq_oss: fix waitqueue_active without memory barrier in snd-seq-oss
snd_seq_oss_readq_put_event() seems to be missing a memory barrier which
might cause the waker to not notice the waiter and miss sending a
wake_up as in the following figure.

    snd_seq_oss_readq_put_event		    snd_seq_oss_readq_wait
------------------------------------------------------------------------
					/* wait_event_interruptible_timeout */
					 /* __wait_event_interruptible_timeout */
					  /* ___wait_event */
					  for (;;) {									 prepare_to_wait_event(&wq, &__wait,
					    state);
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
if (waitqueue_active(&q->midi_sleep))
/* The CPU might reorder the test for
   the waitqueue up here, before
   prior writes complete */
					  if ((q->qlen>0 || q->head==q->tail)
					  ...
					  __ret = schedule_timeout(__ret)
if (q->qlen >= q->maxlen - 1) {
memcpy(&q->q[q->tail], ev, sizeof(*ev));
q->tail = (q->tail + 1) % q->maxlen;
q->qlen++;
------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are two other place in sound/core/seq/oss/ which have similar
code.  The attached patch removes the call to waitqueue_active() leaving
just wake_up() behind.  This fixes the problem because the call to
spin_lock_irqsave() in wake_up() will be an ACQUIRE operation.

I found this issue when I was looking through the linux source code
for places calling waitqueue_active() before wake_up*(), but without
preceding memory barriers, after sending a patch to fix a similar
issue in drivers/tty/n_tty.c  (Details about the original issue can be
found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/28/849).

Signed-off-by: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2015-10-09 09:45:52 +02:00
..
Makefile [ALSA] Changed Jaroslav Kysela's e-mail from perex@suse.cz to perex@perex.cz 2007-10-16 16:51:18 +02:00
seq_oss.c ALSA: replace CONFIG_PROC_FS with CONFIG_SND_PROC_FS 2015-05-27 21:25:19 +02:00
seq_oss_device.h ALSA: seq_oss: Drop debug prints 2014-02-14 08:14:13 +01:00
seq_oss_event.c ALSA: seq: seq_oss_event: missing range checks 2013-03-04 16:39:50 +01:00
seq_oss_event.h [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer OSS-emulation 2006-01-03 12:17:57 +01:00
seq_oss_init.c ALSA: replace CONFIG_PROC_FS with CONFIG_SND_PROC_FS 2015-05-27 21:25:19 +02:00
seq_oss_ioctl.c ALSA: seq_oss: Drop debug prints 2014-02-14 08:14:13 +01:00
seq_oss_midi.c ALSA: replace CONFIG_PROC_FS with CONFIG_SND_PROC_FS 2015-05-27 21:25:19 +02:00
seq_oss_midi.h [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer OSS-emulation 2006-01-03 12:17:57 +01:00
seq_oss_readq.c ALSA: seq_oss: fix waitqueue_active without memory barrier in snd-seq-oss 2015-10-09 09:45:52 +02:00
seq_oss_readq.h [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer OSS-emulation 2006-01-03 12:17:57 +01:00
seq_oss_rw.c [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer OSS-emulation 2006-01-03 12:17:57 +01:00
seq_oss_synth.c ALSA: replace CONFIG_PROC_FS with CONFIG_SND_PROC_FS 2015-05-27 21:25:19 +02:00
seq_oss_synth.h ALSA: seq: Define driver object in each driver 2015-02-12 14:15:54 +01:00
seq_oss_timer.c ALSA: seq_oss: Drop debug prints 2014-02-14 08:14:13 +01:00
seq_oss_timer.h [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer OSS-emulation 2006-01-03 12:17:57 +01:00
seq_oss_writeq.c ALSA: seq_oss: fix waitqueue_active without memory barrier in snd-seq-oss 2015-10-09 09:45:52 +02:00
seq_oss_writeq.h [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer OSS-emulation 2006-01-03 12:17:57 +01:00