[PATCH] ALSA: rawmidi: Work around false-positive mutex lockdep warning
From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Aug 06 2026 - 06:15:12 EST
When opening a legacy rawmidi device for a UMP, it may re-open an
existing rawmidi device for appending to a substream, leading to a
lockdep warning due to rmidi->open_mutex taken twice -- but the
rawmidi devices are completely individual, hence it's a
false-positive.
For avoiding the warning, modify the helper to open a rawmidi instance
with a proper locking subclass from the UMP legacy open.
Unfortunately, there is no good way to achieve it with guard(), so
reverted to the manual mutex calls again.
Reported-by: syzbot+d10d58fc99caa0489796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/6a6a9634.57649fcc.360844.000b.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
---
include/sound/rawmidi.h | 14 ++++++++++++--
sound/core/rawmidi.c | 12 +++++++-----
sound/core/ump.c | 9 +++++----
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/sound/rawmidi.h b/include/sound/rawmidi.h
index 6916f7133597..88a6159364d0 100644
--- a/include/sound/rawmidi.h
+++ b/include/sound/rawmidi.h
@@ -176,8 +176,9 @@ int snd_rawmidi_proceed(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream);
/* main midi functions */
int snd_rawmidi_info_select(struct snd_card *card, struct snd_rawmidi_info *info);
-int snd_rawmidi_kernel_open(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi, int subdevice,
- int mode, struct snd_rawmidi_file *rfile);
+int snd_rawmidi_kernel_open_nested(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi, int subdevice,
+ int mode, struct snd_rawmidi_file *rfile,
+ int depth);
int snd_rawmidi_kernel_release(struct snd_rawmidi_file *rfile);
int snd_rawmidi_output_params(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream,
struct snd_rawmidi_params *params);
@@ -191,6 +192,15 @@ long snd_rawmidi_kernel_read(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream,
long snd_rawmidi_kernel_write(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream,
const unsigned char *buf, long count);
+/* non-nested version */
+static inline int snd_rawmidi_kernel_open(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi,
+ int subdevice,
+ int mode,
+ struct snd_rawmidi_file *rfile)
+{
+ return snd_rawmidi_kernel_open_nested(rmidi, subdevice, mode, rfile, 0);
+}
+
/* set up the tied devices */
static inline void snd_rawmidi_tie_devices(struct snd_rawmidi *r1,
struct snd_rawmidi *r2)
diff --git a/sound/core/rawmidi.c b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
index 1d55da2dcb01..bf504e27f73e 100644
--- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c
+++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
@@ -408,9 +408,10 @@ static int rawmidi_open_priv(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi, int subdevice, int mode,
return 0;
}
-/* called from sound/core/seq/seq_midi.c */
-int snd_rawmidi_kernel_open(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi, int subdevice,
- int mode, struct snd_rawmidi_file *rfile)
+/* called from sound/core/seq/seq_midi.c and sound/core/ump.c */
+int snd_rawmidi_kernel_open_nested(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi, int subdevice,
+ int mode, struct snd_rawmidi_file *rfile,
+ int depth)
{
int err;
@@ -419,13 +420,14 @@ int snd_rawmidi_kernel_open(struct snd_rawmidi *rmidi, int subdevice,
if (!try_module_get(rmidi->card->module))
return -ENXIO;
- guard(mutex)(&rmidi->open_mutex);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&rmidi->open_mutex, depth);
err = rawmidi_open_priv(rmidi, subdevice, mode, rfile);
if (err < 0)
module_put(rmidi->card->module);
+ mutex_unlock(&rmidi->open_mutex);
return err;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_rawmidi_kernel_open);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_rawmidi_kernel_open_nested);
static int snd_rawmidi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
diff --git a/sound/core/ump.c b/sound/core/ump.c
index 632c13baf21e..82ad155c56e6 100644
--- a/sound/core/ump.c
+++ b/sound/core/ump.c
@@ -1157,10 +1157,11 @@ static int snd_ump_legacy_open(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream)
return -ENODEV;
if (dir == SNDRV_RAWMIDI_STREAM_OUTPUT) {
if (!ump->legacy_out_opens) {
- err = snd_rawmidi_kernel_open(&ump->core, 0,
- SNDRV_RAWMIDI_LFLG_OUTPUT |
- SNDRV_RAWMIDI_LFLG_APPEND,
- &ump->legacy_out_rfile);
+ err = snd_rawmidi_kernel_open_nested(&ump->core, 0,
+ SNDRV_RAWMIDI_LFLG_OUTPUT |
+ SNDRV_RAWMIDI_LFLG_APPEND,
+ &ump->legacy_out_rfile,
+ SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
if (err < 0)
return err;
}
--
2.55.0