From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752584AbcFUS1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:27:12 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-f44.google.com ([209.85.215.44]:35205 "EHLO mail-lf0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751606AbcFUS1K (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:27:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Dmitry Vyukov Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:26:48 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: sound: use-after-free in hrtimer_cancel To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, LKML , Sasha Levin , Alexander Potapenko , Kostya Serebryany , syzkaller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 20:27:50 +0200, > Dmitry Vyukov wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > The following program triggers use-after-free: >> >> Forget to mention that you need to run it in a tight parallel loop. It >> takes around 5 minutes to reproduce for me. > > Hmm, this again is a bug that is difficult to trigger... At least, I > couldn't reproduce locally. How many processes are you running with > stress program? > > It seems that there is nothing more than opening /dev/audio and does > some mmap in the job. Is there any other relevant thing there? > > Also, this assumes that the first sound card is Dummy driver, right? > Check /proc/asound/cards. > > If it's about snd-dummy driver, one blind shot would be a patch like > below. But even if it would fix, it doesn't explain why it's > triggered in that way... > > > thanks, > > Takashi > > --- > diff --git a/sound/drivers/dummy.c b/sound/drivers/dummy.c > index c0f8f613f1f1..172dacd925f5 100644 > --- a/sound/drivers/dummy.c > +++ b/sound/drivers/dummy.c > @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ static int dummy_hrtimer_stop(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream) > > static inline void dummy_hrtimer_sync(struct dummy_hrtimer_pcm *dpcm) > { > + hrtimer_cancel(&dpcm->timer); > tasklet_kill(&dpcm->tasklet); > } Yes, this seems to fix it. I've stressed it for an hour with several reproducers. If I am not mistaken, it also makes test cases run 15% faster. Please mail a patch.