[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses

[Takashi Iwai]

The user timer tu->qused counter may go to a negative value when
multiple concurrent reads are performed since both the check and the
decrement of tu->qused are done in two individual locked contexts.
This results in bogus read outs, and the endless loop in the
user-space side.

The fix is to move the decrement of the tu->qused counter into the
same spinlock context as the zero-check of the counter.

Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/core/timer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index e722022d325d..9a6157ea6881 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1955,6 +1955,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 
 		qhead = tu->qhead++;
 		tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size;
+		tu->qused--;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 
 		if (tu->tread) {
@@ -1968,7 +1969,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 		}
 
 		spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock);
-		tu->qused--;
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto _error;
 		result += unit;
-- 
2.9.0