From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 37a7ea4a9b81f6a864c10a7cb0b96458df5310a3 upstream. snd_seq_pool_done() syncs with closing of all opened threads, but it aborts the wait loop with a timeout, and proceeds to the release resource even if not all threads have been closed. The timeout was 5 seconds, and if you run a crazy stuff, it can exceed easily, and may result in the access of the invalid memory address -- this is what syzkaller detected in a bug report. As a fix, let the code graduate from naiveness, simply remove the loop timeout. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+YdhDV2H5LLzDTJDVF-qiYHUHhtRaW4rbb4gUhTCQB81w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c index 652350e2533f..7204c0f1700b 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c @@ -419,7 +419,6 @@ int snd_seq_pool_done(struct snd_seq_pool *pool) { unsigned long flags; struct snd_seq_event_cell *ptr; - int max_count = 5 * HZ; if (snd_BUG_ON(!pool)) return -EINVAL; @@ -432,14 +431,8 @@ int snd_seq_pool_done(struct snd_seq_pool *pool) if (waitqueue_active(&pool->output_sleep)) wake_up(&pool->output_sleep); - while (atomic_read(&pool->counter) > 0) { - if (max_count == 0) { - snd_printk(KERN_WARNING "snd_seq_pool_done timeout: %d cells remain\n", atomic_read(&pool->counter)); - break; - } + while (atomic_read(&pool->counter) > 0) schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); - max_count--; - } /* release all resources */ spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags); -- 2.11.1