ALSA: pcm: Revert capture stream behavior change in blocking mode

tiwai · tiwai · commit 00a399cad1a0 · 2019-02-08T16:54:31.000+01:00
In the commit 62ba568 ("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 e190161 ("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: 62ba568 ("ALSA: pcm: Return 0 when size < start_threshold in capture") Fixes: e190161 ("ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of OSS capture stream") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2112,13 +2112,6 @@ int pcm_lib_apply_appl_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	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(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 		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);
