[PATCH 2/2] ALSA: timer: Fix race between stop and interrupt

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 06:02:32 EST


A slave timer element also unlinks at snd_timer_stop() but it takes
only slave_active_lock. When a slave is assigned to a master,
however, this may become a race against the master's interrupt
handling, eventually resulting in a list corruption. The actual bug
could be seen with a syzkaller fuzzer test case in BugLink below.

As a fix, we need to take timeri->timer->lock when timer isn't NULL,
i.e. assigned to a master, while the assignment to a master itself is
protected by slave_active_lock.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Y_Bm+7epAb=8Wi=AaWd+DYS7qawX52qxdCfOfY49vozQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/timer.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index dea932ac6165..a0405b0078c6 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -518,9 +518,13 @@ static int _snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, int event)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags);
return -EBUSY;
}
+ if (timeri->timer)
+ spin_lock(&timeri->timer->lock);
timeri->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING;
list_del_init(&timeri->ack_list);
list_del_init(&timeri->active_list);
+ if (timeri->timer)
+ spin_unlock(&timeri->timer->lock);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags);
goto __end;
}
--
2.7.1


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