[PATCH 5.19 003/717] ALSA: rawmidi: Drop register_mutex in snd_rawmidi_free()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-10-22T07:37:01Z

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit a70aef7982b012e86dfd39fbb235e76a21ae778a upstream.

The register_mutex taken around the dev_unregister callback call in
snd_rawmidi_free() may potentially lead to a mutex deadlock, when OSS
emulation and a hot unplug are involved.

Since the mutex doesn't protect the actual race (as the registration
itself is already protected by another means), let's drop it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAB7eexJP7w1B0mVgDF0dQ+gWor7UdkiwPczmL7pn91xx8xpzOA@mail.gmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221011070147.7611-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
sound/core/rawmidi.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c
+++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
@@ -1835,10 +1835,8 @@ static int snd_rawmidi_free(struct snd_r

snd_info_free_entry(rmidi->proc_entry);
rmidi->proc_entry = NULL;
- mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
if (rmidi->ops && rmidi->ops->dev_unregister)
rmidi->ops->dev_unregister(rmidi);
- mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);

snd_rawmidi_free_substreams(&rmidi->streams[SNDRV_RAWMIDI_STREAM_INPUT]);
snd_rawmidi_free_substreams(&rmidi->streams[SNDRV_RAWMIDI_STREAM_OUTPUT]);