Re: [BUG] ALSA: ice1712: a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in snd_vt1724_set_pro_rate()

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:25:42 +0100,
Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> 
> The driver may sleep while holding a read lock.
> The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:
> 
> sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c, 414:
> ÂÂÂ mutex_lock in reg_write
> sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c, 485:
> ÂÂÂ reg_write in set_cpld
> sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c, 876:
> ÂÂÂ set_cpld in qtet_set_rate
> sound/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c, 687:
> ÂÂÂ (FUNC_PTR) qtet_set_rate in snd_vt1724_set_pro_rate
> sound/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c, 668:
> ÂÂÂ _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in snd_vt1724_set_pro_rate
> 
> (FUNC_PTR) means a function pointer is called.
> mutex_lock() can sleep at runtime.
> 
> I am not sure how to properly fix this possible bug, so I only report it.
> 
> This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by myself.

Thanks for the report.  I'll submitted the fix.


Takashi