From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai Subject: [PATCH 4.6 171/203] ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:56:26 -0700 Message-Id: <20160725203436.379136229@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160725203429.221747288@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160725203429.221747288@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takashi Iwai commit 3fa6993fef634e05d200d141a85df0b044572364 upstream. The user timer tu->qused counter may go to a negative value when multiple concurrent reads are performed since both the check and the decrement of tu->qused are done in two individual locked contexts. This results in bogus read outs, and the endless loop in the user-space side. The fix is to move the decrement of the tu->qused counter into the same spinlock context as the zero-check of the counter. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- sound/core/timer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -1954,6 +1954,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc qhead = tu->qhead++; tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size; + tu->qused--; spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); if (tu->tread) { @@ -1967,7 +1968,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc } spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock); - tu->qused--; if (err < 0) goto _error; result += unit;