possible deadlock in snd_rawmidi_kernel_open

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/30 00:09
Subsystems: sound
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+d10d58fc99caa0489796@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d23h, last: 3d09h
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5a143d95 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ possible deadlock in snd_rawmidi_kernel_open 2026/07/27 00:00 2026/07/27 00:00 2026/07/27 00:34 492bab15

			
		
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[syzbot] [sound?] possible deadlock in snd_rawmidi_kernel_open 0 (1) 2026/07/30 00:09

Sample crash report:
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
syzkaller #0 Tainted: G             L     
--------------------------------------------
syz.5.2143/13505 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88802becc160 (&rmidi->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: class_mutex_constructor include/linux/mutex.h:253 [inline]
ffff88802becc160 (&rmidi->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: snd_rawmidi_kernel_open+0xa4/0x190 sound/core/rawmidi.c:422

but task is already holding lock:
ffff888057f60960 (&rmidi->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: snd_rawmidi_open+0x296/0xba0 sound/core/rawmidi.c:467

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(&rmidi->open_mutex);
  lock(&rmidi->open_mutex);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

2 locks held by syz.5.2143/13505:
 #0: ffff888057f60960 (&rmidi->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: snd_rawmidi_open+0x296/0xba0 sound/core/rawmidi.c:467
 #1: ffff88802becc460 (&ump->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: class_mutex_constructor include/linux/mutex.h:253 [inline]
 #1: ffff88802becc460 (&ump->open_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: snd_ump_legacy_open+0x120/0x4e0 sound/core/ump.c:1153

stack backtrace:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 13505 Comm: syz.5.2143 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_deadlock_bug.cold+0xbd/0xca kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3041
 check_deadlock kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3093 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3895 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x1256/0x1a40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
 lock_acquire kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x1b9/0x370 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:646 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x1a4/0x1bd0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:821
 class_mutex_constructor include/linux/mutex.h:253 [inline]
 snd_rawmidi_kernel_open+0xa4/0x190 sound/core/rawmidi.c:422
 snd_ump_legacy_open+0x367/0x4e0 sound/core/ump.c:1160
 open_substream+0x480/0x970 sound/core/rawmidi.c:348
 rawmidi_open_priv+0x595/0x6f0 sound/core/rawmidi.c:397
 snd_rawmidi_open+0x4c9/0xba0 sound/core/rawmidi.c:485
 soundcore_open+0x2e3/0x5a0 sound/sound_core.c:594
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x6ab/0x14d0 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1052
 do_open fs/namei.c:4700 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2873/0x4280 fs/namei.c:4863
 do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:4892
 do_sys_openat2+0x10f/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1368
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1374 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1390 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1385 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1385
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcac935e6ce
Code: 08 0f 85 a5 a8 ff ff 49 89 fb 48 89 f0 48 89 d7 48 89 ce 4c 89 c2 4d 89 ca 4c 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b 4c 24 10 4c 89 5c 24 08 0f 05 <c3> 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 08
RSP: 002b:00007fcaca1f0b28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcaca1f16c0 RCX: 00007fcac935e6ce
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007fcaca1f0c00 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007fcaca1f0c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: cccccccccccccccd
R13: 00007fcac9626038 R14: 00007fcac9625fa0 R15: 00007ffed37eca28
 </TASK>

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/27 05:28 upstream 4235cb24ec1e 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream possible deadlock in snd_rawmidi_kernel_open
2026/07/25 15:27 upstream 0ce37745d4bf 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream possible deadlock in snd_rawmidi_kernel_open
2026/07/26 05:28 upstream 3dab139d4795 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 possible deadlock in snd_rawmidi_kernel_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.