Takashi Iwai
f4253b4643
commit 50e9ffb199 upstream.
The virmidi output trigger tries to parse the all available bytes and
process sequencer events as much as possible. In a normal situation,
this is supposed to be relatively short, but a program may give a huge
buffer and it'll take a long time in a single spin lock, which may
eventually lead to a soft lockup.
This patch simply adds a workaround, a cond_resched() call in the loop
if applicable. A better solution would be to move the event processor
into a work, but let's put a duct-tape quickly at first.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dae R. Jeong <threeearcat@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+619d9f40141d826b097e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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