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ALSA: timer: drain a slave's callback before its master detaches it
authorNorbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:14:12 +0000 (09:14 +0200)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:16:56 +0000 (10:16 +0200)
commitbdefe1346a8e6b8dc8593406dc2617e985fcbcab
treeac98a66084af7a6c7e236a2c99ba76e3330a673e
parent70d28bfcd6224eed75986b3b987b997e59643fa4
ALSA: timer: drain a slave's callback before its master detaches it

snd_timer_close_locked() drains the closing instance's own in-flight
callback (IFLG_CALLBACK) before freeing it, but not its slaves'. When a
master instance is closed, remove_slave_links() clears each slave's
->timer; the slave's own close then reads timer == NULL and takes the
branch that skips the drain entirely (snd_timer_stop_slave() also no-ops
on a NULL timer). So a slave whose callback is still running when the
master is closed is freed underneath the live callback, leading to
use-after-free.

Drain the slaves too before remove_slave_links() severs them.
snd_timer_stop() has already taken this instance off the active list, so
no new slave callback can be queued. Take the slaves off the ack list so
a pending one can't fire either, then wait for any that is already in
flight.

Fixes: 37745918e0e7 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/D26598EB-DBF7-4D76-9F71-8E4BD59822D4@doyensec.com
sound/core/timer.c