ALSA: seq: oss: Fix data-race for max_midi_devs access
commit 22dec134dbfa825b963f8a1807ad19b943e46a56 upstream.
ALSA OSS sequencer refers to a global variable max_midi_devs at
creating a new port, storing it to its own field. Meanwhile this
variable may be changed by other sequencer events at
snd_seq_oss_midi_check_exit_port() in parallel, which may cause a data
race.
OTOH, this data race itself is almost harmless, as the access to the
MIDI device is done via get_mdev() and it's protected with a refcount,
hence its presence is guaranteed.
Though, it's sill better to address the data-race from the code sanity
POV, and this patch adds the proper spinlock for the protection.
Reported-by: Abhishek Shah <abhishek.shah@columbia.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAEHB2493pZRXs863w58QWnUTtv3HHfg85aYhLn5HJHCwxqtHQg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823072717.1706-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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