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ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:02:15 +0000 (14:02 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:58:06 +0000 (13:58 -0400)
commit1dd148a1b9beb04150bbd6deae2518b73bbe937c
tree41fbfe8ca1b195534f14d304afd75ffed5a7f5e8
parent23c63b8c08fe3f0b21594ee1ac4de0fa52225f79
ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses

[ Upstream commit 3fa6993fef634e05d200d141a85df0b044572364 ]

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@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
sound/core/timer.c