ALSA: seq: Fix yet another races among ALSA timer accesses
commit 2cdc7b63 upstream. ALSA sequencer may open/close and control ALSA timer instance dynamically either via sequencer events or direct ioctls. These are done mostly asynchronously, and it may call still some timer action like snd_timer_start() while another is calling snd_timer_close(). Since the instance gets removed by snd_timer_close(), it may lead to a use-after-free. This patch tries to address such a race by protecting each snd_timer_*() call via the existing spinlock and also by avoiding the access to timer during close call. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Z6RzW5MBr-HUdV-8zwg71WQfKTdPpYGvOeS7v4cyurNQ@mail.gmail.comReported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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