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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: pcm: disallow linking stream to itself
On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:06:32 +0200,
Michał Mirosław wrote:
>
> Prevent SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_LINK linking stream to itself - the code
> can't handle it. Fixed commit is not where bug was introduced, but
> changes the context significantly.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 0888c321de70 ("pcm_native: switch to fdget()/fdput()")
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>

Thanks for the fix. Just a minor point:

> @@ -2166,6 +2166,12 @@ static int snd_pcm_link(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int fd)
> }
> pcm_file = f.file->private_data;
> substream1 = pcm_file->substream;
> +
> + if (substream == substream1) {
> + res = -EDEADLK;

We've never used this error code, hence it may confuse the user-space
side. I'd use a more standard -EINVAL instead; the error is basically
an invalid argument, after all.


thanks,

Takashi

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