3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -696,8 +696,8 @@ 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)) -- 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