I hit this with syzkaller:
kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 0 PID: 1327 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.8.0-rc2+ #190 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 task: ffff88011278d600 task.stack: ffff8801120c0000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff82c8ba07>] [<ffffffff82c8ba07>] snd_hrtimer_start+0x77/0x100 RSP: 0018:ffff8801120c7a60 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000007 RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 1ffff10023483091 RDI: 0000000000000048 RBP: ffff8801120c7a78 R08: ffff88011a5cf768 R09: ffff88011a5ba790 R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffffed00234b9ef1 R12: ffff880114843980 R13: ffffffff84213c00 R14: ffff880114843ab0 R15: 0000000000000286 FS: 00007f72958f3700(0000) GS:ffff88011aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000603001 CR3: 00000001126ab000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Stack: ffff880114843980 ffff880111eb2dc0 ffff880114843a34 ffff8801120c7ad0 ffffffff82c81ab1 0000000000000000 ffffffff842138e0 0000000100000000 ffff880111eb2dd0 ffff880111eb2dc0 0000000000000001 ffff880111eb2dc0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff82c81ab1>] snd_timer_start1+0x331/0x670 [<ffffffff82c85bfd>] snd_timer_start+0x5d/0xa0 [<ffffffff82c8795e>] snd_timer_user_ioctl+0x88e/0x2830 [<ffffffff8159f3a0>] ? __follow_pte.isra.49+0x430/0x430 [<ffffffff82c870d0>] ? snd_timer_pause+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff815a26fa>] ? do_wp_page+0x3aa/0x1c90 [<ffffffff8132762f>] ? put_prev_entity+0x108f/0x21a0 [<ffffffff82c870d0>] ? snd_timer_pause+0x80/0x80 [<ffffffff816b0733>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x193/0x1050 [<ffffffff813510af>] ? cpuacct_account_field+0x12f/0x1a0 [<ffffffff816b05a0>] ? ioctl_preallocate+0x200/0x200 [<ffffffff81002f2f>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x3cf/0xdb0 [<ffffffff815045ba>] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.4+0x9a/0x1e0 [<ffffffff81002b60>] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0x190/0x190 [<ffffffff82001a97>] ? check_preemption_disabled+0x37/0x1e0 [<ffffffff81d93889>] ? security_file_ioctl+0x89/0xb0 [<ffffffff816b167f>] SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 [<ffffffff816b15f0>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x1050/0x1050 [<ffffffff81005524>] do_syscall_64+0x1c4/0x4e0 [<ffffffff83c32b2a>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 Code: c7 c7 c4 b9 c8 82 48 89 d9 4c 89 ee e8 63 88 7f fe e8 7e 46 7b fe 48 8d 7b 48 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84 c0 74 04 84 c0 7e 65 80 7b 48 00 74 0e e8 52 46 RIP [<ffffffff82c8ba07>] snd_hrtimer_start+0x77/0x100 RSP <ffff8801120c7a60> ---[ end trace 5955b08db7f2b029 ]---
This can happen if snd_hrtimer_open() fails to allocate memory and returns an error, which is currently not checked by snd_timer_open():
ioctl(SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT) - snd_timer_user_tselect() - snd_timer_close() - snd_hrtimer_close() - (struct snd_timer *) t->private_data = NULL - snd_timer_open() - snd_hrtimer_open() - kzalloc() fails; t->private_data is still NULL
ioctl(SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_START) - snd_timer_user_start() - snd_timer_start() - snd_timer_start1() - snd_hrtimer_start() - t->private_data == NULL // boom
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum vegard.nossum@oracle.com --- sound/core/timer.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index faa18f4..056d757 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -294,8 +294,21 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti, get_device(&timer->card->card_dev); timeri->slave_class = tid->dev_sclass; timeri->slave_id = slave_id; - if (list_empty(&timer->open_list_head) && timer->hw.open) - timer->hw.open(timer); + + if (list_empty(&timer->open_list_head) && timer->hw.open) { + int err = timer->hw.open(timer); + if (err) { + kfree(timeri->owner); + kfree(timeri); + + if (timer->card) + put_device(&timer->card->card_dev); + module_put(timer->module); + mutex_unlock(®ister_mutex); + return err; + } + } + list_add_tail(&timeri->open_list, &timer->open_list_head); snd_timer_check_master(timeri); mutex_unlock(®ister_mutex);