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<title>linux-toradex.git/sound, branch v4.1.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ALSA: pcm: Fix rwsem deadlock for non-atomic PCM stream</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-17T13:30:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 67ec1072b053c15564e6090ab30127895dc77a89 ]

A non-atomic PCM stream may take snd_pcm_link_rwsem rw semaphore twice
in the same code path, e.g. one in snd_pcm_action_nonatomic() and
another in snd_pcm_stream_lock().  Usually this is OK, but when a
write lock is issued between these two read locks, the problem
happens: the write lock is blocked due to the first reade lock, and
the second read lock is also blocked by the write lock.  This
eventually deadlocks.

The reason is the way rwsem manages waiters; it's queued like FIFO, so
even if the writer itself doesn't take the lock yet, it blocks all the
waiters (including reads) queued after it.

As a workaround, in this patch, we replace the standard down_write()
with an spinning loop.  This is far from optimal, but it's good
enough, as the spinning time is supposed to be relatively short for
normal PCM operations, and the code paths requiring the write lock
aren't called so often.

Reported-by: Vinod Koul &lt;vinod.koul@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ramesh Babu &lt;ramesh.babu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 67ec1072b053c15564e6090ab30127895dc77a89 ]

A non-atomic PCM stream may take snd_pcm_link_rwsem rw semaphore twice
in the same code path, e.g. one in snd_pcm_action_nonatomic() and
another in snd_pcm_stream_lock().  Usually this is OK, but when a
write lock is issued between these two read locks, the problem
happens: the write lock is blocked due to the first reade lock, and
the second read lock is also blocked by the write lock.  This
eventually deadlocks.

The reason is the way rwsem manages waiters; it's queued like FIFO, so
even if the writer itself doesn't take the lock yet, it blocks all the
waiters (including reads) queued after it.

As a workaround, in this patch, we replace the standard down_write()
with an spinning loop.  This is far from optimal, but it's good
enough, as the spinning time is supposed to be relatively short for
normal PCM operations, and the code paths requiring the write lock
aren't called so often.

Reported-by: Vinod Koul &lt;vinod.koul@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ramesh Babu &lt;ramesh.babu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Fix double port list deletion</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-16T13:15:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 13d5e5d4725c64ec06040d636832e78453f477b7 ]

The commit [7f0973e973cd: ALSA: seq: Fix lockdep warnings due to
double mutex locks] split the management of two linked lists (source
and destination) into two individual calls for avoiding the AB/BA
deadlock.  However, this may leave the possible double deletion of one
of two lists when the counterpart is being deleted concurrently.
It ends up with a list corruption, as revealed by syzkaller fuzzer.

This patch fixes it by checking the list emptiness and skipping the
deletion and the following process.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bay9qsrz6dQu31EcGaH9XwfW7o3oBzSQUG9fMszoh=Sg@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 7f0973e973cd ('ALSA: seq: Fix lockdep warnings due to 'double mutex locks)
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 13d5e5d4725c64ec06040d636832e78453f477b7 ]

The commit [7f0973e973cd: ALSA: seq: Fix lockdep warnings due to
double mutex locks] split the management of two linked lists (source
and destination) into two individual calls for avoiding the AB/BA
deadlock.  However, this may leave the possible double deletion of one
of two lists when the counterpart is being deleted concurrently.
It ends up with a list corruption, as revealed by syzkaller fuzzer.

This patch fixes it by checking the list emptiness and skipping the
deletion and the following process.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bay9qsrz6dQu31EcGaH9XwfW7o3oBzSQUG9fMszoh=Sg@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 7f0973e973cd ('ALSA: seq: Fix lockdep warnings due to 'double mutex locks)
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: hda - Cancel probe work instead of flush at remove</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-15T15:37:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0b8c82190c12e530eb6003720dac103bf63e146e ]

The commit [991f86d7ae4e: ALSA: hda - Flush the pending probe work at
remove] introduced the sync of async probe work at remove for fixing
the race.  However, this may lead to another hangup when the module
removal is performed quickly before starting the probe work, because
it issues flush_work() and it's blocked forever.

The workaround is to use cancel_work_sync() instead of flush_work()
there.

Fixes: 991f86d7ae4e ('ALSA: hda - Flush the pending probe work at remove')
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0b8c82190c12e530eb6003720dac103bf63e146e ]

The commit [991f86d7ae4e: ALSA: hda - Flush the pending probe work at
remove] introduced the sync of async probe work at remove for fixing
the race.  However, this may lead to another hangup when the module
removal is performed quickly before starting the probe work, because
it issues flush_work() and it's blocked forever.

The workaround is to use cancel_work_sync() instead of flush_work()
there.

Fixes: 991f86d7ae4e ('ALSA: hda - Flush the pending probe work at remove')
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.17+
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Fix leak of pool buffer at concurrent writes</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-15T15:20:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d99a36f4728fcbcc501b78447f625bdcce15b842 ]

When multiple concurrent writes happen on the ALSA sequencer device
right after the open, it may try to allocate vmalloc buffer for each
write and leak some of them.  It's because the presence check and the
assignment of the buffer is done outside the spinlock for the pool.

The fix is to move the check and the assignment into the spinlock.

(The current implementation is suboptimal, as there can be multiple
 unnecessary vmallocs because the allocation is done before the check
 in the spinlock.  But the pool size is already checked beforehand, so
 this isn't a big problem; that is, the only possible path is the
 multiple writes before any pool assignment, and practically seen, the
 current coverage should be "good enough".)

The issue was triggered by syzkaller fuzzer.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bSzazpXNvtAr=WXaL8hptqjHwqEyFA+VN2AWEx=aurkg@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d99a36f4728fcbcc501b78447f625bdcce15b842 ]

When multiple concurrent writes happen on the ALSA sequencer device
right after the open, it may try to allocate vmalloc buffer for each
write and leak some of them.  It's because the presence check and the
assignment of the buffer is done outside the spinlock for the pool.

The fix is to move the check and the assignment into the spinlock.

(The current implementation is suboptimal, as there can be multiple
 unnecessary vmallocs because the allocation is done before the check
 in the spinlock.  But the pool size is already checked beforehand, so
 this isn't a big problem; that is, the only possible path is the
 multiple writes before any pool assignment, and practically seen, the
 current coverage should be "good enough".)

The issue was triggered by syzkaller fuzzer.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bSzazpXNvtAr=WXaL8hptqjHwqEyFA+VN2AWEx=aurkg@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: usb-audio: avoid freeing umidi object twice</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-13T08:08:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 07d86ca93db7e5cdf4743564d98292042ec21af7 ]

The 'umidi' object will be free'd on the error path by snd_usbmidi_free()
when tearing down the rawmidi interface. So we shouldn't try to free it
in snd_usbmidi_create() after having registered the rawmidi interface.

Found by KASAN.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 07d86ca93db7e5cdf4743564d98292042ec21af7 ]

The 'umidi' object will be free'd on the error path by snd_usbmidi_free()
when tearing down the rawmidi interface. So we shouldn't try to free it
in snd_usbmidi_create() after having registered the rawmidi interface.

Found by KASAN.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-08T16:26:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4dff5c7b7093b19c19d3a100f8a3ad87cb7cd9e7 ]

snd_timer_user_read() has a potential race among parallel reads, as
qhead and qused are updated outside the critical section due to
copy_to_user() calls.  Move them into the critical section, and also
sanitize the relevant code a bit.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4dff5c7b7093b19c19d3a100f8a3ad87cb7cd9e7 ]

snd_timer_user_read() has a potential race among parallel reads, as
qhead and qused are updated outside the critical section due to
copy_to_user() calls.  Move them into the critical section, and also
sanitize the relevant code a bit.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: hda - Fix bad dereference of jack object</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-09T09:23:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2ebab40eb74a0225d5dfba72bfae317dd948fa2d ]

The hda_jack_tbl entries are managed by snd_array for allowing
multiple jacks.  It's good per se, but the problem is that struct
hda_jack_callback keeps the hda_jack_tbl pointer.  Since snd_array
doesn't preserve each pointer at resizing the array, we can't keep the
original pointer but have to deduce the pointer at each time via
snd_array_entry() instead.  Actually, this resulted in the deference
to the wrong pointer on codecs that have many pins such as CS4208.

This patch replaces the pointer to the NID value as the search key.
As an unexpected good side effect, this even simplifies the code, as
only NID is needed in most cases.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2ebab40eb74a0225d5dfba72bfae317dd948fa2d ]

The hda_jack_tbl entries are managed by snd_array for allowing
multiple jacks.  It's good per se, but the problem is that struct
hda_jack_callback keeps the hda_jack_tbl pointer.  Since snd_array
doesn't preserve each pointer at resizing the array, we can't keep the
original pointer but have to deduce the pointer at each time via
snd_array_entry() instead.  Actually, this resulted in the deference
to the wrong pointer on codecs that have many pins such as CS4208.

This patch replaces the pointer to the NID value as the search key.
As an unexpected good side effect, this even simplifies the code, as
only NID is needed in most cases.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: timer: Fix race between stop and interrupt</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-09T11:02:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ed8b1d6d2c741ab26d60d499d7fbb7ac801f0f51 ]

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-&gt;timer-&gt;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: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ed8b1d6d2c741ab26d60d499d7fbb7ac801f0f51 ]

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-&gt;timer-&gt;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: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: timer: Fix wrong instance passed to slave callbacks</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T15:25:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-08T16:36:25+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 117159f0b9d392fb433a7871426fad50317f06f7 ]

In snd_timer_notify1(), the wrong timer instance was passed for slave
ccallback function.  This leads to the access to the wrong data when
an incompatible master is handled (e.g. the master is the sequencer
timer and the slave is a user timer), as spotted by syzkaller fuzzer.

This patch fixes that wrong assignment.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Y_Bm+7epAb=8Wi=AaWd+DYS7qawX52qxdCfOfY49vozQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 117159f0b9d392fb433a7871426fad50317f06f7 ]

In snd_timer_notify1(), the wrong timer instance was passed for slave
ccallback function.  This leads to the access to the wrong data when
an incompatible master is handled (e.g. the master is the sequencer
timer and the slave is a user timer), as spotted by syzkaller fuzzer.

This patch fixes that wrong assignment.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Y_Bm+7epAb=8Wi=AaWd+DYS7qawX52qxdCfOfY49vozQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: dummy: Implement timer backend switching more safely</title>
<updated>2016-02-28T05:09:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-02T14:27:36+00:00</published>
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Currently the selected timer backend is referred at any moment from
the running PCM callbacks.  When the backend is switched, it's
possible to lead to inconsistency from the running backend.  This was
pointed by syzkaller fuzzer, and the commit [7ee96216c31a: ALSA:
dummy: Disable switching timer backend via sysfs] disabled the dynamic
switching for avoiding the crash.

This patch improves the handling of timer backend switching.  It keeps
the reference to the selected backend during the whole operation of an
opened stream so that it won't be changed by other streams.

Together with this change, the hrtimer parameter is reenabled as
writable now.

NOTE: this patch also turned out to fix the still remaining race.
Namely, ops was still replaced dynamically at dummy_pcm_open:

  static int dummy_pcm_open(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
  {
  ....
          dummy-&gt;timer_ops = &amp;dummy_systimer_ops;
          if (hrtimer)
                  dummy-&gt;timer_ops = &amp;dummy_hrtimer_ops;

Since dummy-&gt;timer_ops is common among all streams, and when the
replacement happens during accesses of other streams, it may lead to a
crash.  This was actually triggered by syzkaller fuzzer and KASAN.

This patch rewrites the code not to use the ops shared by all streams
any longer, too.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+aZ+xisrpuM6cOXbL21DuM0yVxPYXf4cD4Md9uw0C3dBQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ddce57a6f0a2d8d1bfacfa77f06043bc760403c2 ]

Currently the selected timer backend is referred at any moment from
the running PCM callbacks.  When the backend is switched, it's
possible to lead to inconsistency from the running backend.  This was
pointed by syzkaller fuzzer, and the commit [7ee96216c31a: ALSA:
dummy: Disable switching timer backend via sysfs] disabled the dynamic
switching for avoiding the crash.

This patch improves the handling of timer backend switching.  It keeps
the reference to the selected backend during the whole operation of an
opened stream so that it won't be changed by other streams.

Together with this change, the hrtimer parameter is reenabled as
writable now.

NOTE: this patch also turned out to fix the still remaining race.
Namely, ops was still replaced dynamically at dummy_pcm_open:

  static int dummy_pcm_open(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
  {
  ....
          dummy-&gt;timer_ops = &amp;dummy_systimer_ops;
          if (hrtimer)
                  dummy-&gt;timer_ops = &amp;dummy_hrtimer_ops;

Since dummy-&gt;timer_ops is common among all streams, and when the
replacement happens during accesses of other streams, it may lead to a
crash.  This was actually triggered by syzkaller fuzzer and KASAN.

This patch rewrites the code not to use the ops shared by all streams
any longer, too.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+aZ+xisrpuM6cOXbL21DuM0yVxPYXf4cD4Md9uw0C3dBQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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