ALSA: timer: Fix mutex deadlock at releasing card

When a card is disconnected while in use, the system waits until all
opened files are closed then releases the card.  This is done via
put_device() of the card device in each device release code.

The recently reported mutex deadlock bug happens in this code path;
snd_timer_close() for the timer device deals with the global
register_mutex and it calls put_device() there.  When this timer
device is the last one, the card gets freed and it eventually calls
snd_timer_free(), which has again the protection with the global
register_mutex -- boom.

Basically put_device() call itself is race-free, so a relative simple
workaround is to move this put_device() call out of the mutex.  For
achieving that, in this patch, snd_timer_close_locked() got a new
argument to store the card device pointer in return, and each caller
invokes put_device() with the returned object after the mutex unlock.

Reported-and-tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index 5c9fbf3f4340..6b724d2ee2de 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ static int snd_timer_check_master(struct snd_timer_instance *master)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri);
+static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
+				  struct device **card_devp_to_put);
 
 /*
  * open a timer instance
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti,
 {
 	struct snd_timer *timer;
 	struct snd_timer_instance *timeri = NULL;
+	struct device *card_dev_to_put = NULL;
 	int err;
 
 	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
@@ -261,7 +263,7 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti,
 		list_add_tail(&timeri->open_list, &snd_timer_slave_list);
 		err = snd_timer_check_slave(timeri);
 		if (err < 0) {
-			snd_timer_close_locked(timeri);
+			snd_timer_close_locked(timeri, &card_dev_to_put);
 			timeri = NULL;
 		}
 		goto unlock;
@@ -313,7 +315,7 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti,
 			timeri = NULL;
 
 			if (timer->card)
-				put_device(&timer->card->card_dev);
+				card_dev_to_put = &timer->card->card_dev;
 			module_put(timer->module);
 			goto unlock;
 		}
@@ -323,12 +325,15 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti,
 	timer->num_instances++;
 	err = snd_timer_check_master(timeri);
 	if (err < 0) {
-		snd_timer_close_locked(timeri);
+		snd_timer_close_locked(timeri, &card_dev_to_put);
 		timeri = NULL;
 	}
 
  unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
+	/* put_device() is called after unlock for avoiding deadlock */
+	if (card_dev_to_put)
+		put_device(card_dev_to_put);
 	*ti = timeri;
 	return err;
 }
@@ -338,7 +343,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_open);
  * close a timer instance
  * call this with register_mutex down.
  */
-static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
+static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
+				  struct device **card_devp_to_put)
 {
 	struct snd_timer *timer = timeri->timer;
 	struct snd_timer_instance *slave, *tmp;
@@ -395,7 +401,7 @@ static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 			timer->hw.close(timer);
 		/* release a card refcount for safe disconnection */
 		if (timer->card)
-			put_device(&timer->card->card_dev);
+			*card_devp_to_put = &timer->card->card_dev;
 		module_put(timer->module);
 	}
 
@@ -407,14 +413,18 @@ static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
  */
 int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 {
+	struct device *card_dev_to_put = NULL;
 	int err;
 
 	if (snd_BUG_ON(!timeri))
 		return -ENXIO;
 
 	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
-	err = snd_timer_close_locked(timeri);
+	err = snd_timer_close_locked(timeri, &card_dev_to_put);
 	mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
+	/* put_device() is called after unlock for avoiding deadlock */
+	if (card_dev_to_put)
+		put_device(card_dev_to_put);
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_close);