This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: timer: Fix leftover link at closing to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alsa-timer-fix-leftover-link-at-closing.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 094fd3be87b0f102589e2d5c3fa5d06b7e20496d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:06:13 +0100 Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix leftover link at closing From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 094fd3be87b0f102589e2d5c3fa5d06b7e20496d upstream. In ALSA timer core, the active timer instance is managed in active_list linked list. Each element is added / removed dynamically at timer start, stop and in timer interrupt. The problem is that snd_timer_interrupt() has a thinko and leaves the element in active_list when it's the last opened element. This eventually leads to list corruption or use-after-free error. This hasn't been revealed because we used to delete the list forcibly in snd_timer_stop() in the past. However, the recent fix avoids the double-stop behavior (in commit [f784beb75ce8: ALSA: timer: Fix link corruption due to double start or stop]), and this leak hits reality. This patch fixes the link management in snd_timer_interrupt(). Now it simply unlinks no matter which stream is. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Yy2aukHP-EDp8-ziNqNNmb-NTf=jDWXMP7jB8HDa2vng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/timer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -702,8 +702,8 @@ void snd_timer_interrupt(struct snd_time ti->cticks = ti->ticks; } else { ti->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING; - if (--timer->running) - list_del_init(&ti->active_list); + --timer->running; + list_del_init(&ti->active_list); } if ((timer->hw.flags & SNDRV_TIMER_HW_TASKLET) || (ti->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_FAST)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-closing-in-virmidi-driver.patch queue-3.10/alsa-rawmidi-remove-kernel-warning-for-null-user-space-buffer-check.patch queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-lockdep-warnings-due-to-double-mutex-locks.patch queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-fix-teac-ud-501-ud-503-nt-503-usb-delay.patch queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-wrong-instance-passed-to-slave-callbacks.patch queue-3.10/alsa-compress-disable-get_codec_caps-ioctl-for-some-architectures.patch queue-3.10/alsa-hda-fix-speaker-output-from-vaio-aio-machines.patch queue-3.10/alsa-dummy-implement-timer-backend-switching-more-safely.patch queue-3.10/alsa-dummy-disable-switching-timer-backend-via-sysfs.patch queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-incorrect-sanity-check-at-snd_seq_oss_synth_cleanup.patch queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-yet-another-races-among-alsa-timer-accesses.patch queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-avoid-freeing-umidi-object-twice.patch queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-leftover-link-at-closing.patch queue-3.10/alsa-rawmidi-fix-race-at-copying-updating-the-position.patch queue-3.10/alsa-pcm-fix-potential-deadlock-in-oss-emulation.patch queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-link-corruption-due-to-double-start-or-stop.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html