When the trigger=off is passed for a PCM OSS stream, it sets the
start_threshold of the given substream to the boundary size, so that
it won't be automatically started. This can be problematic for a
capture stream, unfortunately, as detected by syzkaller. The scenario
is like the following:
- In __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() that is invoked from snd_pcm_oss_read()
loop, we have a check whether the stream was already started or the
stream can be auto-started.
- The function at this check returns 0 with trigger=off since we
explicitly disable the auto-start.
- The loop continues and repeats calling __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() tightly,
which may lead to an RCU stall.
This patch fixes the bug by simply allowing the wait for non-started
stream in the case of OSS capture. For native usages, it's supposed
to be done by the caller side (which is user-space), hence it returns
zero like before.
(In theory, __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() could wait even for the native API
usage cases, too; but I'd like to stay in a safer side for not
breaking the existing stuff for now.)
Reported-by: syzbot+fbe0496f92a0ce7b786c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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