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Subject[PATCH 4.20 58/92] ALSA: pcm: Revert capture stream behavior change in blocking mode
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4.20-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 00a399cad1a063e7665f06b6497a807db20441fd upstream.

In the commit 62ba568f7aef ("ALSA: pcm: Return 0 when size <
start_threshold in capture"), we changed the behavior of
__snd_pcm_lib_xfer() to return immediately with 0 when a capture
stream has a high start_threshold. This was intended to be a
correction of the behavior consistency and looked harmless, but this
was the culprit of the recent breakage reported by syzkaller, which
was fixed by the commit e190161f96b8 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of
OSS capture stream").

At the time for the OSS fix, I didn't touch the behavior for ALSA
native API, as assuming that this behavior actually is good. But this
turned out to be also broken actually for a similar deployment,
e.g. one thread goes to a write loop in blocking mode while another
thread controls the start/stop of the stream manually.

Overall, the original commit is harmful, and it brings less merit to
keep that behavior. Let's revert it.

Fixes: 62ba568f7aef ("ALSA: pcm: Return 0 when size < start_threshold in capture")
Fixes: e190161f96b8 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of OSS capture stream")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 20 ++++----------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2112,13 +2112,6 @@ int pcm_lib_apply_appl_ptr(struct snd_pc
return 0;
}

-/* allow waiting for a capture stream that hasn't been started */
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS)
-#define wait_capture_start(substream) ((substream)->oss.oss)
-#else
-#define wait_capture_start(substream) false
-#endif
-
/* the common loop for read/write data */
snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
void *data, bool interleaved,
@@ -2184,16 +2177,11 @@ snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(str
snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr(substream);

if (!is_playback &&
- runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_PREPARED) {
- if (size >= runtime->start_threshold) {
- err = snd_pcm_start(substream);
- if (err < 0)
- goto _end_unlock;
- } else if (!wait_capture_start(substream)) {
- /* nothing to do */
- err = 0;
+ runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_PREPARED &&
+ size >= runtime->start_threshold) {
+ err = snd_pcm_start(substream);
+ if (err < 0)
goto _end_unlock;
- }
}

avail = snd_pcm_avail(substream);

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