From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:07:11 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix racy timeri->timer changes with rwlock
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=100407f548ca54a8c235fafba9d7c60c953c0d7e;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

ALSA: timer: Fix racy timeri->timer changes with rwlock

Although we've covered the races around the timer object assignment
and release for timer instances, there are still races at starting or
stopping the timer instance.  They refer to timeri->timer without
lock, hence they can still trigger UAFs.

For addressing it, this patch changes the existing slave_active_lock
spinlock to timeri_lock rwlock.  It's a global rwlock applied as
read-lock when snd_timer_start() & co are called as well as
snd_timeri_timer_get() is called.  In turn, the places where
timeri->timer is assigned or released are covered by the write-lock.

The patch replaces spinlock_irqsave with spinlock in a couple of
spaces because they are now already protected by timeri_lock, too.

Reported-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260614090714.773216-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index a3ae5416485ec..51c6ac4df9f47 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ static LIST_HEAD(snd_timer_slave_list);
 /* list of open master instances that can accept slave links */
 static LIST_HEAD(snd_timer_master_list);
 
-/* lock for slave active lists */
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(slave_active_lock);
+/* rwlock for timer instance (for trigger actions) */
+static DEFINE_RWLOCK(timeri_lock);
 
 #define MAX_SLAVE_INSTANCES	1000
 static int num_slaves;
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ struct snd_timer *snd_timeri_timer_get(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 {
 	struct snd_timer *t;
 
-	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&slave_active_lock);
+	guard(read_lock_irqsave)(&timeri_lock);
 	t = timeri->timer;
 	if (!t)
 		return NULL;
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int check_matching_master_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *master,
 	list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &master->slave_list_head);
 	master->timer->num_instances++;
 	snd_timer_ref_get(master->timer);
-	guard(spinlock_irq)(&slave_active_lock);
+	guard(write_lock_irq)(&timeri_lock);
 	guard(spinlock)(&master->timer->lock);
 	slave->master = master;
 	slave->timer = master->timer;
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static void remove_slave_links(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
 {
 	struct snd_timer_instance *slave, *tmp;
 
-	guard(spinlock_irq)(&slave_active_lock);
+	guard(write_lock_irq)(&timeri_lock);
 	guard(spinlock)(&timer->lock);
 	timeri->timer = NULL;
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(slave, tmp, &timeri->slave_list_head, open_list) {
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static int snd_timer_start1(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
 	if (!timer)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&timer->lock);
+	guard(spinlock)(&timer->lock);
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
@@ -649,7 +649,6 @@ static int snd_timer_start1(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
 static int snd_timer_start_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
 				 bool start)
 {
-	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&slave_active_lock);
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING)
@@ -673,7 +672,7 @@ static int snd_timer_stop1(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, bool stop)
 	timer = timeri->timer;
 	if (!timer)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&timer->lock);
+	guard(spinlock)(&timer->lock);
 	list_del_init(&timeri->ack_list);
 	list_del_init(&timeri->active_list);
 	if (!(timeri->flags & (SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING |
@@ -712,7 +711,6 @@ static int snd_timer_stop_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, bool stop)
 {
 	bool running;
 
-	guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&slave_active_lock);
 	running = timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING;
 	timeri->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING;
 	if (timeri->timer) {
@@ -733,6 +731,7 @@ int snd_timer_start(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, unsigned int ticks)
 {
 	if (timeri == NULL || ticks < 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	guard(read_lock_irqsave)(&timeri_lock);
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_SLAVE)
 		return snd_timer_start_slave(timeri, true);
 	else
@@ -747,6 +746,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_start);
  */
 int snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 {
+	guard(read_lock_irqsave)(&timeri_lock);
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_SLAVE)
 		return snd_timer_stop_slave(timeri, true);
 	else
@@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ int snd_timer_continue(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 	if (!(timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_PAUSED))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	guard(read_lock_irqsave)(&timeri_lock);
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_SLAVE)
 		return snd_timer_start_slave(timeri, false);
 	else
@@ -775,6 +776,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_timer_continue);
  */
 int snd_timer_pause(struct snd_timer_instance * timeri)
 {
+	guard(read_lock_irqsave)(&timeri_lock);
 	if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_SLAVE)
 		return snd_timer_stop_slave(timeri, false);
 	else