From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932805AbcCDQGd (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:06:33 -0500 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:60735 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758803AbcCDQEJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:04:09 -0500 Message-Id: <20160304153002.770593141@1wt.eu> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:30:47 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dmitry Vyukov , Takashi Iwai , Ben Hutchings , Willy Tarreau Subject: [PATCH 2.6.32 47/55] ALSA: timer: Fix leftover link at closing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 In-Reply-To: <148ee355b419e9976ca727513a1405c8@local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takashi Iwai commit 094fd3be87b0f102589e2d5c3fa5d06b7e20496d upstream. In ALSA timer core, the active timer instance is managed in active_list linked list. Each element is added / removed dynamically at timer start, stop and in timer interrupt. The problem is that snd_timer_interrupt() has a thinko and leaves the element in active_list when it's the last opened element. This eventually leads to list corruption or use-after-free error. This hasn't been revealed because we used to delete the list forcibly in snd_timer_stop() in the past. However, the recent fix avoids the double-stop behavior (in commit [f784beb75ce8: ALSA: timer: Fix link corruption due to double start or stop]), and this leak hits reality. This patch fixes the link management in snd_timer_interrupt(). Now it simply unlinks no matter which stream is. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Yy2aukHP-EDp8-ziNqNNmb-NTf=jDWXMP7jB8HDa2vng@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau --- sound/core/timer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index fb29803..2383874 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -723,8 +723,8 @@ void snd_timer_interrupt(struct snd_timer * timer, unsigned long ticks_left) ti->cticks = ti->ticks; } else { ti->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING; - if (--timer->running) - list_del_init(&ti->active_list); + --timer->running; + list_del_init(&ti->active_list); } if ((timer->hw.flags & SNDRV_TIMER_HW_TASKLET) || (ti->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_FAST)) -- 1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty