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Takashi Iwai
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Currently the call of kill_fasync() from an interrupt handler might
lead to potential spin deadlocks, as spotted by syzkaller.
Unfortunately, it's not so trivial to fix this lock chain as it's
involved with the tasklist_lock that is touched in allover places.
As a temporary workaround, this patch provides the way to defer the
async signal notification in a work. The new helper functions,
snd_fasync_helper() and snd_kill_faync() are replacements for
fasync_helper() and kill_fasync(), respectively. In addition,
snd_fasync_free() needs to be called at the destructor of the relevant
file object.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728125945.29533-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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