At Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:59:32 +0200, Tommi Rantala wrote:
Hello,
I'm hitting this while fuzzing the kernel with Trinity:
The patch below fixes a clear bug in the code path. Could you check whether it'll fit?
thanks,
Takashi
--- From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: seq: Fix missing error handling in snd_seq_timer_open()
snd_seq_timer_open() didn't catch the whole error path but let through if the timer id is a slave. This may lead to Oops by accessing the uninitialized pointer.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c index 160b1bd..24d44b2 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c @@ -290,10 +290,10 @@ int snd_seq_timer_open(struct snd_seq_queue *q) tid.device = SNDRV_TIMER_GLOBAL_SYSTEM; err = snd_timer_open(&t, str, &tid, q->queue); } - if (err < 0) { - snd_printk(KERN_ERR "seq fatal error: cannot create timer (%i)\n", err); - return err; - } + } + if (err < 0) { + snd_printk(KERN_ERR "seq fatal error: cannot create timer (%i)\n", err); + return err; } t->callback = snd_seq_timer_interrupt; t->callback_data = q;