Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix mutex deadlock at disconnection
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
tiwai committed Nov 14, 2012
1 parent effded7 commit 10e4423
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 3 deletions.
6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions sound/usb/card.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -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);
Expand All @@ -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);
}
}
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 10e4423

Please sign in to comment.