Patch "ALSA: pcm: Allow aborting mutex lock at OSS read/write loops" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: pcm: Allow aborting mutex lock at OSS read/write loops

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     alsa-pcm-allow-aborting-mutex-lock-at-oss-read-write-loops.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 900498a34a3ac9c611e9b425094c8106bdd7dc1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 14:03:53 +0100
Subject: ALSA: pcm: Allow aborting mutex lock at OSS read/write loops

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 900498a34a3ac9c611e9b425094c8106bdd7dc1c upstream.

PCM OSS read/write loops keep taking the mutex lock for the whole
read/write, and this might take very long when the exceptionally high
amount of data is given.  Also, since it invokes with mutex_lock(),
the concurrent read/write becomes unbreakable.

This patch tries to address these issues by replacing mutex_lock()
with mutex_lock_interruptible(), and also splits / re-takes the lock
at each read/write period chunk, so that it can switch the context
more finely if requested.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
@@ -1369,8 +1369,11 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_write1(struct
 
 	if ((tmp = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready(substream)) < 0)
 		return tmp;
-	mutex_lock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
 	while (bytes > 0) {
+		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) {
+			tmp = -ERESTARTSYS;
+			break;
+		}
 		if (bytes < runtime->oss.period_bytes || runtime->oss.buffer_used > 0) {
 			tmp = bytes;
 			if (tmp + runtime->oss.buffer_used > runtime->oss.period_bytes)
@@ -1414,18 +1417,18 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_write1(struct
 			xfer += tmp;
 			if ((substream->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) != 0 &&
 			    tmp != runtime->oss.period_bytes)
-				break;
+				tmp = -EAGAIN;
 		}
+ err:
+		mutex_unlock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
+		if (tmp < 0)
+			break;
 		if (signal_pending(current)) {
 			tmp = -ERESTARTSYS;
-			goto err;
+			break;
 		}
+		tmp = 0;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
-	return xfer;
-
- err:
-	mutex_unlock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
 	return xfer > 0 ? (snd_pcm_sframes_t)xfer : tmp;
 }
 
@@ -1473,8 +1476,11 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_read1(struct
 
 	if ((tmp = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready(substream)) < 0)
 		return tmp;
-	mutex_lock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
 	while (bytes > 0) {
+		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) {
+			tmp = -ERESTARTSYS;
+			break;
+		}
 		if (bytes < runtime->oss.period_bytes || runtime->oss.buffer_used > 0) {
 			if (runtime->oss.buffer_used == 0) {
 				tmp = snd_pcm_oss_read2(substream, runtime->oss.buffer, runtime->oss.period_bytes, 1);
@@ -1505,16 +1511,16 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_read1(struct
 			bytes -= tmp;
 			xfer += tmp;
 		}
+ err:
+		mutex_unlock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
+		if (tmp < 0)
+			break;
 		if (signal_pending(current)) {
 			tmp = -ERESTARTSYS;
-			goto err;
+			break;
 		}
+		tmp = 0;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
-	return xfer;
-
- err:
-	mutex_unlock(&runtime->oss.params_lock);
 	return xfer > 0 ? (snd_pcm_sframes_t)xfer : tmp;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@suse.de are

queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-remove-incorrect-snd_bug_on-usages.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-fix-inconsistent-format-due-to-incomplete-rule.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-add-missing-error-checks-in-oss-emulation-plugin-builder.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-abort-properly-at-pending-signal-in-oss-read-write-loops.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-pcm-allow-aborting-mutex-lock-at-oss-read-write-loops.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-fix-racy-hw-constraints-adjustment.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-release-cable-upon-open-error-path.patch