ALSA: seq: Break too long mutex context in the write loop
The fix for the racy writes and ioctls to sequencer widened the application of client->ioctl_mutex to the whole write loop. Although it does unlock/relock for the lengthy operation like the event dup, the loop keeps the ioctl_mutex for the whole time in other situations. This may take quite long time if the user-space would give a huge buffer, and this is a likely cause of some weird behavior spotted by syzcaller fuzzer. This patch puts a simple workaround, just adding a mutex break in the loop when a large number of events have been processed. This shouldn't hit any performance drop because the threshold is set high enough for usual operations. Fixes: 7bd80091 ("ALSA: seq: More protection for concurrent write and ioctl races") Reported-by: syzbot+97aae04ce27e39cbfca9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+4c595632b98bb8ffcc66@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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