Patch "ALSA: timer: Limit max instances per timer" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

Patch "ALSA: timer: Limit max instances per timer" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: timer: Limit max instances per timer

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     alsa-timer-limit-max-instances-per-timer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 9b7d869ee5a77ed4a462372bb89af622e705bfb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 10:07:43 +0100
Subject: ALSA: timer: Limit max instances per timer
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 9b7d869ee5a77ed4a462372bb89af622e705bfb8 upstream.

Currently we allow unlimited number of timer instances, and it may
bring the system hogging way too much CPU when too many timer
instances are opened and processed concurrently.  This may end up with
a soft-lockup report as triggered by syzkaller, especially when
hrtimer backend is deployed.

Since such insane number of instances aren't demanded by the normal
use case of ALSA sequencer and it merely  opens a risk only for abuse,
this patch introduces the upper limit for the number of instances per
timer backend.  As default, it's set to 1000, but for the fine-grained
timer like hrtimer, it's set to 100.

Reported-by: syzbot
Tested-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/sound/timer.h |    2 +
 sound/core/hrtimer.c  |    1 
 sound/core/timer.c    |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/include/sound/timer.h
+++ b/include/sound/timer.h
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ struct snd_timer {
 	struct list_head ack_list_head;
 	struct list_head sack_list_head; /* slow ack list head */
 	struct tasklet_struct task_queue;
+	int max_instances;	/* upper limit of timer instances */
+	int num_instances;	/* current number of timer instances */
 };
 
 struct snd_timer_instance {
--- a/sound/core/hrtimer.c
+++ b/sound/core/hrtimer.c
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ static int __init snd_hrtimer_init(void)
 	timer->hw = hrtimer_hw;
 	timer->hw.resolution = resolution;
 	timer->hw.ticks = NANO_SEC / resolution;
+	timer->max_instances = 100; /* lower the limit */
 
 	err = snd_timer_global_register(timer);
 	if (err < 0) {
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static void snd_timer_request(struct snd
  *
  * call this with register_mutex down.
  */
-static void snd_timer_check_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *slave)
+static int snd_timer_check_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *slave)
 {
 	struct snd_timer *timer;
 	struct snd_timer_instance *master;
@@ -190,16 +190,21 @@ static void snd_timer_check_slave(struct
 		list_for_each_entry(master, &timer->open_list_head, open_list) {
 			if (slave->slave_class == master->slave_class &&
 			    slave->slave_id == master->slave_id) {
+				if (master->timer->num_instances >=
+				    master->timer->max_instances)
+					return -EBUSY;
 				list_move_tail(&slave->open_list,
 					       &master->slave_list_head);
+				master->timer->num_instances++;
 				spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
 				slave->master = master;
 				slave->timer = master->timer;
 				spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
-				return;
+				return 0;
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -208,7 +213,7 @@ static void snd_timer_check_slave(struct
  *
  * call this with register_mutex down.
  */
-static void snd_timer_check_master(struct snd_timer_instance *master)
+static int snd_timer_check_master(struct snd_timer_instance *master)
 {
 	struct snd_timer_instance *slave, *tmp;
 
@@ -216,7 +221,11 @@ static void snd_timer_check_master(struc
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(slave, tmp, &snd_timer_slave_list, open_list) {
 		if (slave->slave_class == master->slave_class &&
 		    slave->slave_id == master->slave_id) {
+			if (master->timer->num_instances >=
+			    master->timer->max_instances)
+				return -EBUSY;
 			list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &master->slave_list_head);
+			master->timer->num_instances++;
 			spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
 			spin_lock(&master->timer->lock);
 			slave->master = master;
@@ -228,8 +237,11 @@ static void snd_timer_check_master(struc
 			spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
 		}
 	}
+	return 0;
 }
 
+static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri);
+
 /*
  * open a timer instance
  * when opening a master, the slave id must be here given.
@@ -240,6 +252,7 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_inst
 {
 	struct snd_timer *timer;
 	struct snd_timer_instance *timeri = NULL;
+	int err;
 
 	if (tid->dev_class == SNDRV_TIMER_CLASS_SLAVE) {
 		/* open a slave instance */
@@ -259,10 +272,14 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_inst
 		timeri->slave_id = tid->device;
 		timeri->flags |= SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_SLAVE;
 		list_add_tail(&timeri->open_list, &snd_timer_slave_list);
-		snd_timer_check_slave(timeri);
+		err = snd_timer_check_slave(timeri);
+		if (err < 0) {
+			snd_timer_close_locked(timeri);
+			timeri = NULL;
+		}
 		mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 		*ti = timeri;
-		return 0;
+		return err;
 	}
 
 	/* open a master instance */
@@ -288,6 +305,10 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_inst
 			return -EBUSY;
 		}
 	}
+	if (timer->num_instances >= timer->max_instances) {
+		mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
 	timeri = snd_timer_instance_new(owner, timer);
 	if (!timeri) {
 		mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
@@ -314,25 +335,27 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_inst
 	}
 
 	list_add_tail(&timeri->open_list, &timer->open_list_head);
-	snd_timer_check_master(timeri);
+	timer->num_instances++;
+	err = snd_timer_check_master(timeri);
+	if (err < 0) {
+		snd_timer_close_locked(timeri);
+		timeri = NULL;
+	}
 	mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 	*ti = timeri;
-	return 0;
+	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_open);
 
 /*
  * close a timer instance
+ * call this with register_mutex down.
  */
-int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
+static int snd_timer_close_locked(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 {
 	struct snd_timer *timer = NULL;
 	struct snd_timer_instance *slave, *tmp;
 
-	if (snd_BUG_ON(!timeri))
-		return -ENXIO;
-
-	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
 	list_del(&timeri->open_list);
 
 	/* force to stop the timer */
@@ -340,6 +363,7 @@ int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_ins
 
 	timer = timeri->timer;
 	if (timer) {
+		timer->num_instances--;
 		/* wait, until the active callback is finished */
 		spin_lock_irq(&timer->lock);
 		while (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_CALLBACK) {
@@ -355,6 +379,7 @@ int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_ins
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(slave, tmp, &timeri->slave_list_head,
 					 open_list) {
 			list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &snd_timer_slave_list);
+			timer->num_instances--;
 			slave->master = NULL;
 			slave->timer = NULL;
 			list_del_init(&slave->ack_list);
@@ -382,9 +407,24 @@ int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_ins
 		module_put(timer->module);
 	}
 
-	mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/*
+ * close a timer instance
+ */
+int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	if (snd_BUG_ON(!timeri))
+		return -ENXIO;
+
+	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
+	err = snd_timer_close_locked(timeri);
+	mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
+	return err;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_close);
 
 unsigned long snd_timer_resolution(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
@@ -855,6 +895,7 @@ int snd_timer_new(struct snd_card *card,
 	spin_lock_init(&timer->lock);
 	tasklet_init(&timer->task_queue, snd_timer_tasklet,
 		     (unsigned long)timer);
+	timer->max_instances = 1000; /* default limit per timer */
 	if (card != NULL) {
 		timer->module = card->module;
 		err = snd_device_new(card, SNDRV_DEV_TIMER, timer, &ops);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@suse.de are

queue-4.13/alsa-seq-avoid-invalid-lockdep-class-warning.patch
queue-4.13/alsa-hda-fix-headset-mic-problem-for-dell-machines-with-alc274.patch
queue-4.13/alsa-timer-limit-max-instances-per-timer.patch
queue-4.13/alsa-seq-fix-oss-sysex-delivery-in-oss-emulation.patch
queue-4.13/alsa-usb-audio-support-new-amanero-combo384-firmware-version.patch