Re: sound: use-after-free in snd_timer_interrupt
From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed Apr 20 2016 - 06:31:11 EST
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:08:55 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:56:04 +0200,
> Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> >> It is not easily reproducible. I've hit several times while running
> > >> >> fuzzer for a week. Here is one of the logs for the record:
> > >> >> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/c84798ee55721563ecb537c4d51dc9f5/raw/f00b865a85877656f13b41917f7321730f140d35/gistfile1.txt
> > >> >
> > >> > There are a few more fixes in sound/core/timer.c since 4.5, and they
> > >> > possibly already cover this.
> > >> >
> > >> > Please let me know if this is still seen on the upcoming 4.6-rc2.
> > >>
> > >> Hi Takashi,
> > >>
> > >> I've updated fuzzer to 05cf8077e54b20dddb756eaa26f3aeb5c38dd3cf (Apr
> > >> 1) yesterday. Let's see if it still happens.
> > >>
> > >> Out of curiosity, how was the bug found?
> > >
> > > Well, I'm not entirely sure whether they really cover. It's just a
> > > hope, as these are patches to close some possible races :)
> > >
> > > 9984d1b5835ca29fc7025186a891ee7398d21cc7
> > > ALSA: timer: Protect the whole snd_timer_close() with open race
> > > f65e0d299807d8a11812845c972493c3f9a18e10
> > > ALSA: timer: Call notifier in the same spinlock
> > > 4a07083ed613644c96c34a7dd2853dc5d7c70902
> > > ALSA: timer: Use mod_timer() for rearming the system timer
> >
> >
> > Hi Takashi,
> >
> > I've hit it again on 806fdcce017dc98c4dbf8ed001750a0d7d2bb0af (Apr
> > 14), all 3 commits are already in my tree.
> >
> > [ 343.222218] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [ 343.222218] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 7040 at kernel/time/hrtimer.c:837
> > hrtimer_forward+0x26a/0x3e0
>
> This is a different warning. The previous was use-after-free, and
> this is a warning about re-arming the queued hrtimer.
> Maybe there is a slightly remaining race about hrtimer_start() and the
> interrupt handler in snd-hrtimer.
Could you check whether two patches below help anything?
This should harden against the race between hrtimer callback and
another start/stop calls.
Takashi
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