ALSA: timer: Fix race between stop and interrupt

A slave timer element also unlinks at snd_timer_stop() but it takes only slave_active_lock. When a slave is assigned to a master, however, this may become a race against the master's interrupt handling, eventually resulting in a list corruption. The actual bug could be seen with a syzkaller fuzzer test case in BugLink below. As a fix, we need to take timeri->timer->lock when timer isn't NULL, i.e. assigned to a master, while the assignment to a master itself is protected by slave_active_lock. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Y_Bm+7epAb=8Wi=AaWd+DYS7qawX52qxdCfOfY49vozQ@mail.gmail.com Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
kyagi · Feb 9, 2016 · ed8b1d6 · ed8b1d6
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diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -518,9 +518,13 @@ static int _snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, int event)
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags);
 			return -EBUSY;
 		}
+		if (timeri->timer)
+			spin_lock(&timeri->timer->lock);
 		timeri->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING;
 		list_del_init(&timeri->ack_list);
 		list_del_init(&timeri->active_list);
+		if (timeri->timer)
+			spin_unlock(&timeri->timer->lock);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags);
 		goto __end;
 	}