kernel/linux.git/sound/core/timer.c, branch v6.19.11

ALSA: timer: Relax __free() variable declarations

2026-02-26T23:00:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit b1bf8ac5319010e0f73183bdb78c1daf5552c8cb ] We used to have a variable declaration with __free() initialized with NULL. This was to keep the old coding style rule, but recently it's relaxed and rather recommends to follow the new rule to declare in place of use for __free() -- which avoids potential deadlocks or UAFs with nested cleanups. Although the current code has no bug, per se, let's follow the new standard and move the declaration to the place of assignment (or directly assign the allocated result) instead of NULL initializations. Fixes: ed96f6394e1b ("ALSA: timer: Use automatic cleanup of kfree()") Fixes: 37745918e0e7 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers") Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216140634.171890-8-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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

[tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out

2024-09-27T15:18:43+00:00

no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441 ("fs: remove no_llseek") To quote that commit, At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek - git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do sed -i '/\/d' $i done would do it. Unfortunately, that hadn't been done. Linus, could you do that now, so that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the form .llseek = no_llseek, so it's obviously safe. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ALSA: core: Drop superfluous no_free_ptr() for memdup_user() errors

2024-09-02T08:21:41+00:00

We used to wrap with no_free_ptr() for the return value from memdup_user() with errors where the auto cleanup is applied. This was a workaround because the initial implementation of kfree auto-cleanup checked only NULL pointers. Since recently, though, the kfree auto-cleanup checks with IS_ERR_OR_NULL() (by the commit cd7eb8f83fcf ("mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers")), hence those workarounds became superfluous. Let's drop them now. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240902075246.3743-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai

ALSA: core: timer: Use NSEC_PER_SEC macro

2024-09-02T08:18:11+00:00

1000000000L is number of ns per second, use NSEC_PER_SEC macro to replace it to make it more readable Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240902071622.3519787-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai

ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers

2024-08-18T07:55:54+00:00

Implement two ioctl calls in order to support virtual userspace-driven ALSA timers. The first ioctl is SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_CREATE, which gets the snd_timer_uinfo struct as a parameter and puts a file descriptor of a virtual timer into the `fd` field of the snd_timer_unfo structure. It also updates the `id` field of the snd_timer_uinfo struct, which provides a unique identifier for the timer (basically, the subdevice number which can be used when creating timer instances). This patch also introduces a tiny id allocator for the userspace-driven timers, which guarantees that we don't have more than 128 of them in the system. Another ioctl is SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_TRIGGER, which allows us to trigger the virtual timer (and calls snd_timer_interrupt for the timer under the hood), causing all of the timer instances binded to this timer to execute their callbacks. The maximum amount of ticks available for the timer is 1 for the sake of simplicity of the userspace API. 'start', 'stop', 'open' and 'close' callbacks for the userspace-driven timers are empty since we don't really do any hardware initialization here. Suggested-by: Axel Holzinger Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240813120701.171743-4-ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com