Patch "ALSA: aloop: Sync stale timer before release" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "ALSA: aloop: Sync stale timer before release" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    ALSA: aloop: Sync stale timer before release

to the 3.18-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-aloop-sync-stale-timer-before-release.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 67a01afaf3d34893cf7d2ea19b34555d6abb7cb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:56:06 +0100
Subject: ALSA: aloop: Sync stale timer before release

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 67a01afaf3d34893cf7d2ea19b34555d6abb7cb0 upstream.

The aloop driver tries to stop the pending timer via timer_del() in
the trigger callback and in the close callback.  The former is
correct, as it's an atomic operation, while the latter expects that
the timer gets really removed and proceeds the resource releases after
that.  But timer_del() doesn't synchronize, hence the running timer
may still access the released resources.

A similar situation can be also seen in the prepare callback after
trigger(STOP) where the prepare tries to re-initialize the things
while a timer is still running.

The problems like the above are seen indirectly in some syzkaller
reports (although it's not 100% clear whether this is the only cause,
as the race condition is quite narrow and not always easy to
trigger).

For addressing these issues, this patch adds the explicit alls of
timer_del_sync() in some places, so that the pending timer is properly
killed / synced.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/drivers/aloop.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/drivers/aloop.c
+++ b/sound/drivers/aloop.c
@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ static inline void loopback_timer_stop(s
 	dpcm->timer.expires = 0;
 }
 
+static inline void loopback_timer_stop_sync(struct loopback_pcm *dpcm)
+{
+	del_timer_sync(&dpcm->timer);
+}
+
 #define CABLE_VALID_PLAYBACK	(1 << SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK)
 #define CABLE_VALID_CAPTURE	(1 << SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)
 #define CABLE_VALID_BOTH	(CABLE_VALID_PLAYBACK|CABLE_VALID_CAPTURE)
@@ -327,6 +332,8 @@ static int loopback_prepare(struct snd_p
 	struct loopback_cable *cable = dpcm->cable;
 	int bps, salign;
 
+	loopback_timer_stop_sync(dpcm);
+
 	salign = (snd_pcm_format_width(runtime->format) *
 						runtime->channels) / 8;
 	bps = salign * runtime->rate;
@@ -746,7 +753,7 @@ static int loopback_close(struct snd_pcm
 	struct loopback *loopback = substream->private_data;
 	struct loopback_pcm *dpcm = substream->runtime->private_data;
 
-	loopback_timer_stop(dpcm);
+	loopback_timer_stop_sync(dpcm);
 	mutex_lock(&loopback->cable_lock);
 	free_cable(substream);
 	mutex_unlock(&loopback->cable_lock);


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

queue-3.18/alsa-aloop-fix-access-to-not-yet-ready-substream-via-cable.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-usb-audio-fix-parsing-descriptor-of-uac2-processing-unit.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-aloop-sync-stale-timer-before-release.patch