kernel/linux.git/sound/core/timer.c, branch v6.18.44

ALSA: timer: Clear SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD once the close completes

2026-08-09T18:25:14+00:00

commit c2744d5f3aea474513fd2298daecb94a952ce441 upstream. snd_timer_close_locked() marks an instance with SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD and returns early when the flag is already set, but the flag is never cleared again. A completed close ends in remove_slave_links(), which leaves timeri->timer NULL, so a second close is already harmless through the timer == NULL path; the early return can only be reached by an instance that was opened again in between. For such an instance the close unlinks nothing, so snd_timer_instance_free() frees an object that is still on timer->open_list_head, still on snd_timer_master_list if it was opened with a slave key, still owns any adopted slaves, and still holds its timer and module references. snd_seq_timer_open() reopens an instance exactly like that: it retries its fallback open on the same object after a failure that has already run snd_timer_close_locked() internally. An unprivileged user with access to /dev/snd/timer and /dev/snd/seq can force that failure, since snd_timer_check_master() returns -EBUSY when a pending slave matches the new master's (slave_class, slave_id) key and the target timer has reached max_instances, and SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT with dev_class = SNDRV_TIMER_CLASS_SLAVE keeps the caller-supplied dev_sclass, so a sequencer queue's key can be forged. The freed instance is afterwards dereferenced by any further snd_timer_open() on that timer, by snd_timer_check_slave(), and by /proc/asound/timers, which faults on the stale ti->owner pointer. The flag only has to be visible while the close is in progress, which is all its other users need. Clear it in remove_slave_links(), under the same timer->lock that sets it, once the instance is off every list. Fixes: da3039e91d1f ("ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei Link: https://patch.msgid.link/CA41AA48-75BF-45E9-A36D-3A5D2F124F60@doyensec.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ALSA: timer: don't re-enter an instance callback that is still running

2026-08-03T09:21:57+00:00

commit 70d28bfcd6224eed75986b3b987b997e59643fa4 upstream. The userspace-driven timer (utimer) TRIGGER ioctl calls snd_timer_interrupt() directly with no serialization, so two threads triggering the same utimer can run snd_timer_interrupt() on one snd_timer concurrently. snd_timer_process_callbacks() drops timer->lock around each instance callback and marks the in-flight callback with the single SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_CALLBACK bit; snd_timer_close_locked() waits on that bit to drain an in-flight callback before freeing the instance. The bit cannot represent two concurrent callbacks: when a second interrupt re-queues an instance whose callback is still running, both run at once, the first to finish clears the bit, and the close-path drain then frees the instance (and its callback_data) while the other callback is still live - a use-after-free reachable by any user able to open /dev/snd/timer, both via a user timer instance and via a sequencer queue timer bound to the utimer. snd_timer_interrupt() sets IFLG_CALLBACK before dropping timer->lock, so a concurrent interrupt already observes it under the lock. Skip re-queuing an instance (and its slaves) to the ack/sack list while its callback is in flight; the accumulated pticks are delivered on the next tick, so no event is lost. Fixes: 37745918e0e7 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6F9B6501-8E65-4265-B02C-7EFB240D1664@doyensec.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ALSA: timer: drain a slave's callback before its master detaches it

2026-08-03T09:21:57+00:00

commit bdefe1346a8e6b8dc8593406dc2617e985fcbcab upstream. snd_timer_close_locked() drains the closing instance's own in-flight callback (IFLG_CALLBACK) before freeing it, but not its slaves'. When a master instance is closed, remove_slave_links() clears each slave's ->timer; the slave's own close then reads timer == NULL and takes the branch that skips the drain entirely (snd_timer_stop_slave() also no-ops on a NULL timer). So a slave whose callback is still running when the master is closed is freed underneath the live callback, leading to use-after-free. Drain the slaves too before remove_slave_links() severs them. snd_timer_stop() has already taken this instance off the active list, so no new slave callback can be queued. Take the slaves off the ack list so a pending one can't fire either, then wait for any that is already in flight. Fixes: 37745918e0e7 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/D26598EB-DBF7-4D76-9F71-8E4BD59822D4@doyensec.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params()

2026-06-19T11:44:04+00:00

commit 053a401b592be424fea9d57c789f66cd5d8cec11 upstream. At releasing a timer object, e.g. when a userspace timer (CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) gets closed and snd_timer_free() is called, it tries to detach the timer instances and release the resources. However, it's still possible that other in-flight tasks are holding the timer instance where the to-be-deleted timer object is associated, and this may lead to racy accesses. Fortunately, most of ioctls dealing with the timer instance list already have the protection with register_mutex, and this also avoids such races. But, SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS isn't protected, hence the concurrent ioctl may lead to use-after-free. This patch just adds the guard with register_mutex to protect snd_timer_user_params() for covering the code path as a quick workaround. It's no hot-path but rather a rarely issued ioctl, so the performance penalty doesn't matter. Reported-by: Kyle Zeng Tested-by: Kyle Zeng Cc: Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260606161145.1933447-2-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing

2026-06-19T11:44:04+00:00

commit da3039e91d1f835874ed6e9a33ea19ee80c2cb92 upstream. When snd_timer object is freed via snd_timer_free() and still pending snd_timer_instance objects are assigned to the timer object, it tries to unlink all instances and just set NULL to each ti->timer, then releases the resources immediately. The problem is, however, when there are slave timer instances that are associated with a master instance linked to this timer: namely, those slave instances still point to the freed timer object although the master instance is unlinked, which may lead to user-after-free. The bug can be easily triggered particularly when a new userspace-driven timers (CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) is involved, since it can create and delete the timer object via a simple file open/close, while the other applications may keep accessing to that timer. This patch is an attempt to paper over the problem above: now instead of just unlinking, call snd_timer_close[_locked]() forcibly for each pending timer instance, so that all assigned slave timer instances are properly detached, too. Since snd_timer_close() might be called later by the driver that created that instance, the check of SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD is added at the beginning, too. Reported-by: Kyle Zeng Tested-by: Kyle Zeng Fixes: 37745918e0e7 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260606161145.1933447-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ALSA: timer: fix ida_free call while not allocated

2025-08-21T07:12:24+00:00

In the snd_utimer_create() function, if the kasprintf() function return NULL, snd_utimer_put_id() will be called, finally use ida_free() to free the unallocated id 0. the syzkaller reported the following information: ------------[ cut here ]------------ ida_free called for id=0 which is not allocated. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1286 at lib/idr.c:592 ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1286 Comm: syz-executor164 Not tainted 6.15.8 #3 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.fc42 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592 Code: f8 fc 41 83 fc 3e 76 69 e8 70 b2 f8 (...) RSP: 0018:ffffc900007f79c8 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff920000fef3b RCX: ffffffff872176a5 RDX: ffff88800369d200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88800369d200 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff87ba60a5 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f6f1abc1740(0000) GS:ffff8880d76a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f6f1ad7a784 CR3: 000000007a6e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: snd_utimer_put_id sound/core/timer.c:2043 [inline] [snd_timer] snd_utimer_create+0x59b/0x6a0 sound/core/timer.c:2184 [snd_timer] snd_utimer_ioctl_create sound/core/timer.c:2202 [inline] [snd_timer] __snd_timer_user_ioctl.isra.0+0x724/0x1340 sound/core/timer.c:2287 [snd_timer] snd_timer_user_ioctl+0x75/0xc0 sound/core/timer.c:2298 [snd_timer] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x198/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x160 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [...] The utimer->id should be set properly before the kasprintf() function, ensures the snd_utimer_put_id() function will free the allocated id. Fixes: 37745918e0e75 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers") Signed-off-by: Dewei Meng Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250821014317.40786-1-mengdewei@cqsoftware.com.cn Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai

ALSA: timer: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()

2025-06-30T12:07:42+00:00

strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() instead. No functional changes intended. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250630105420.1448-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ALSA: timer: Don't take register_mutex with copy_from/to_user()

2025-03-21T17:28:28+00:00

The infamous mmap_lock taken in copy_from/to_user() can be often problematic when it's called inside another mutex, as they might lead to deadlocks. In the case of ALSA timer code, the bad pattern is with guard(mutex)(®ister_mutex) that covers copy_from/to_user() -- which was mistakenly introduced at converting to guard(), and it had been carefully worked around in the past. This patch fixes those pieces simply by moving copy_from/to_user() out of the register mutex lock again. Fixes: 3923de04c817 ("ALSA: pcm: oss: Use guard() for setup") Reported-by: syzbot+2b96f44164236dda0f3b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/67dd86c8.050a0220.25ae54.0059.GAE@google.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250321172653.14310-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai