--- /dev/null
+From 4a63bd179fa8d3fcc44a0d9d71d941ddd62f0c4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 20:27:36 +0200
+Subject: ALSA: timer: Set lower bound of start tick time
+
+From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+
+commit 4a63bd179fa8d3fcc44a0d9d71d941ddd62f0c4e upstream.
+
+Currently ALSA timer doesn't have the lower limit of the start tick
+time, and it allows a very small size, e.g. 1 tick with 1ns resolution
+for hrtimer. Such a situation may lead to an unexpected RCU stall,
+where the callback repeatedly queuing the expire update, as reported
+by fuzzer.
+
+This patch introduces a sanity check of the timer start tick time, so
+that the system returns an error when a too small start size is set.
+As of this patch, the lower limit is hard-coded to 100us, which is
+small enough but can still work somehow.
+
+Reported-by: syzbot+43120c2af6ca2938cc38@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
+Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000fa00a1061740ab6d@google.com
+Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
+Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240514182745.4015-1-tiwai@suse.de
+Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+[ backport note: the error handling is changed, as the original commit
+ is based on the recent cleanup with guard() in commit beb45974dd49
+ -- tiwai ]
+Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ sound/core/timer.c | 10 ++++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/sound/core/timer.c
++++ b/sound/core/timer.c
+@@ -553,6 +553,16 @@ static int snd_timer_start1(struct snd_t
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
++ /* check the actual time for the start tick;
++ * bail out as error if it's way too low (< 100us)
++ */
++ if (start) {
++ if ((u64)snd_timer_hw_resolution(timer) * ticks < 100000) {
++ result = -EINVAL;
++ goto unlock;
++ }
++ }
++
+ if (start)
+ timeri->ticks = timeri->cticks = ticks;
+ else if (!timeri->cticks)