On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:34:36 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This and your other relevant reports seem pointing the race of timer > > ioctls. Although snd_timer_close() itself calls snd_timer_stop(), > > there is no other protection against the concurrent execution. > > > > If my guess is correct, a simplistic fix like below should work. It > > basically serializes the timer ioctl by using a new mutex (and > > replacing the old tread_sem mutex). They are no longtime blocking > > calls, so this shouldn't be a big problem. But certainly there can be > > a less intrusive way to paper over this if this really matters. > > > > In this case for timer.c, I'd leave the final decision rather to > > Jaroslav. Jaroslav, what do you think? > > > After applying this patch I still see the following WARNINGS: > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 30398 at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x10b/0x1e0() > list_del corruption, ffff880032d933b0->next is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100) > Modules linked in: > CPU: 2 PID: 30398 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.4.0+ #241 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 > 00000000ffffffff ffff8800627778d8 ffffffff82926eed ffff880062777948 > ffff880061c2af80 ffffffff8660b640 ffff880062777918 ffffffff81350c89 > ffffffff8298e77b ffffed000c4eef25 ffffffff8660b640 0000000000000035 > Call Trace: > [< inline >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 > [<ffffffff82926eed>] dump_stack+0x6f/0xa2 lib/dump_stack.c:50 > [<ffffffff81350c89>] warn_slowpath_common+0xd9/0x140 kernel/panic.c:483 > [<ffffffff81350d99>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xa9/0xd0 kernel/panic.c:495 > [<ffffffff8298e77b>] __list_del_entry+0x10b/0x1e0 lib/list_debug.c:51 > [< inline >] list_del_init include/linux/list.h:145 > [<ffffffff84ebd199>] _snd_timer_stop+0x119/0x450 sound/core/timer.c:501 This is list_del_init(&timeri->active_list); right? Possibly the following oneliner covers it? thanks, Takashi --- diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index b03a9e489286..3810ee8f1205 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ void snd_timer_interrupt(struct snd_timer * timer, unsigned long ticks_left) } else { ti->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING; if (--timer->running) - list_del(&ti->active_list); + list_del_init(&ti->active_list); } if ((timer->hw.flags & SNDRV_TIMER_HW_TASKLET) || (ti->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_FAST)) _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel