Commit 1b5eca28 authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai Committed by Kamal Mostafa

ALSA: dummy: Disable switching timer backend via sysfs

commit 7ee96216 upstream.

ALSA dummy driver can switch the timer backend between system timer
and hrtimer via its hrtimer module option.  This can be also switched
dynamically via sysfs, but it may lead to a memory corruption when
switching is done while a PCM stream is running; the stream instance
for the newly switched timer method tries to access the memory that
was allocated by another timer method although the sizes differ.

As the simplest fix, this patch just disables the switch via sysfs by
dropping the writable bit.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+ZGEeEBntHW5WHn2GoeE0G_kRrCmUh6=dWyy-wfzvuJLg@mail.gmail.comReported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent 287e8e59
......@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(pcm_substreams, "PCM substreams # (1-128) for dummy driver.");
module_param(fake_buffer, bool, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(fake_buffer, "Fake buffer allocations.");
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
module_param(hrtimer, bool, 0644);
module_param(hrtimer, bool, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(hrtimer, "Use hrtimer as the timer source.");
#endif
......
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