@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static int snd_hrtimer_start(struct snd_timer *t)
struct snd_hrtimer *stime = t->private_data;
atomic_set(&stime->running, 0);
- hrtimer_cancel(&stime->hrt);
+ hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&stime->hrt);
hrtimer_start(&stime->hrt, ns_to_ktime(t->sticks * resolution),
HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
atomic_set(&stime->running, 1);
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ static int snd_hrtimer_stop(struct snd_timer *t)
{
struct snd_hrtimer *stime = t->private_data;
atomic_set(&stime->running, 0);
+ hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&stime->hrt);
return 0;
}
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel() to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From b753a870bbeaa50beb4c89d6181fd38956998270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:52:47 +0100 Subject: ALSA: hrtimer: Fix stall by hrtimer_cancel() commit 2ba1fe7a06d3624f9a7586d672b55f08f7c670f3 upstream. hrtimer_cancel() waits for the completion from the callback, thus it must not be called inside the callback itself. This was already a problem in the past with ALSA hrtimer driver, and the early commit [fcfdebe70759: ALSA: hrtimer - Fix lock-up] tried to address it. However, the previous fix is still insufficient: it may still cause a lockup when the ALSA timer instance reprograms itself in its callback. Then it invokes the start function even in snd_timer_interrupt() that is called in hrtimer callback itself, results in a CPU stall. This is no hypothetical problem but actually triggered by syzkaller fuzzer. This patch tries to fix the issue again. Now we call hrtimer_try_to_cancel() at both start and stop functions so that it won't fall into a deadlock, yet giving some chance to cancel the queue if the functions have been called outside the callback. The proper hrtimer_cancel() is called in anyway at closing, so this should be enough. Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- sound/core/hrtimer.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.9.1