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From: "Cássio Gabriel" <cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Cássio Gabriel" <cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: als4000: Fix capture trigger chip->mode race
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:30:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260417-als4000-capture-trigger-race-v1-1-daeffc2feb67@gmail.com> (raw)

snd_als4000_capture_trigger() updates chip->mode under mixer_lock,
while snd_als4000_set_rate() and snd_als4000_playback_trigger()
serialize the same rate-lock state with reg_lock.

The PCM core serializes callbacks only per acted-on substream, or for an
explicitly linked group, so unlinked playback and capture streams can
run concurrently.

That leaves two races on ALS4000 rate-lock state:
- playback and capture trigger callbacks can concurrently update
  chip->mode and lose one of the SB_RATE_LOCK bits
- snd_als4000_set_rate() can observe chip->mode without the capture
  lock bit set and reprogram the shared sample rate while capture is
  being started

Fix this by taking reg_lock as the outer lock in
snd_als4000_capture_trigger() and nesting mixer_lock only for the CR1E
write. This keeps chip->mode serialized with the rest of the ALS4000
rate-lock users while preserving the existing CR1E programming
sequence.

Signed-off-by: Cássio Gabriel <cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com>
---
 sound/pci/als4000.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/als4000.c b/sound/pci/als4000.c
index 33034e07b3d6..636f309c9424 100644
--- a/sound/pci/als4000.c
+++ b/sound/pci/als4000.c
@@ -421,30 +421,26 @@ static int snd_als4000_capture_trigger(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int
 {
 	struct snd_sb *chip = snd_pcm_substream_chip(substream);
 	int result = 0;
-	
-	/* FIXME race condition in here!!!
-	   chip->mode non-atomic update gets consistently protected
-	   by reg_lock always, _except_ for this place!!
-	   Probably need to take reg_lock as outer (or inner??) lock, too.
-	   (or serialize both lock operations? probably not, though... - racy?)
-	*/
-	guard(spinlock)(&chip->mixer_lock);
-	switch (cmd) {
-	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
-	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_RESUME:
-		chip->mode |= SB_RATE_LOCK_CAPTURE;
-		snd_als4_cr_write(chip, ALS4K_CR1E_FIFO2_CONTROL,
-							 capture_cmd(chip));
-		break;
-	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_STOP:
-	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_SUSPEND:
-		chip->mode &= ~SB_RATE_LOCK_CAPTURE;
-		snd_als4_cr_write(chip, ALS4K_CR1E_FIFO2_CONTROL,
-							 capture_cmd(chip));
-		break;
-	default:
-		result = -EINVAL;
-		break;
+
+	guard(spinlock)(&chip->reg_lock);
+	scoped_guard(spinlock, &chip->mixer_lock) {
+		switch (cmd) {
+		case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
+		case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_RESUME:
+			chip->mode |= SB_RATE_LOCK_CAPTURE;
+			snd_als4_cr_write(chip, ALS4K_CR1E_FIFO2_CONTROL,
+					  capture_cmd(chip));
+			break;
+		case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_STOP:
+		case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_SUSPEND:
+			chip->mode &= ~SB_RATE_LOCK_CAPTURE;
+			snd_als4_cr_write(chip, ALS4K_CR1E_FIFO2_CONTROL,
+					  capture_cmd(chip));
+			break;
+		default:
+			result = -EINVAL;
+			break;
+		}
 	}
 	return result;
 }

---
base-commit: 99c71f13f9841f8c67fa7595bf0834d3045f5d24
change-id: 20260416-als4000-capture-trigger-race-cc8b2bfd3cfa

Best regards,
--  
Cássio Gabriel <cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com>


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-17 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-17 20:30 Cássio Gabriel [this message]
2026-04-20  7:08 ` [PATCH] ALSA: als4000: Fix capture trigger chip->mode race Takashi Iwai

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