[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix races at disconnection and PCM closing" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: usb-audio: Fix races at disconnection and PCM closing

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 8d1e1ec95023149fcf67c0130aed6bc80b3941fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:24:47 +0200
Subject: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix races at disconnection and PCM closing

commit 92a586bdc06de6629dae1b357dac221253f55ff8 upstream.

When a USB-audio device is disconnected while PCM is still running, we
still see some race: the disconnect callback calls
snd_usb_endpoint_free() that calls release_urbs() and then kfree()
while a PCM stream would be closed at the same time and calls
stop_endpoints() that leads to wait_clear_urbs().  That is, the EP
object might be deallocated while a PCM stream is syncing with
wait_clear_urbs() with the same EP.

Basically calling multiple wait_clear_urbs() would work fine, also
calling wait_clear_urbs() and release_urbs() would work, too, as
wait_clear_urbs() just reads some fields in ep.  The problem is the
succeeding kfree() in snd_pcm_endpoint_free().

This patch moves out the EP deallocation into the later point, the
destructor callback.  At this stage, all PCMs must have been already
closed, so it's safe to free the objects.

Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/usb/card.c     | 13 ++++++++++---
 sound/usb/endpoint.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 sound/usb/endpoint.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c
index d979050..af19560 100644
--- a/sound/usb/card.c
+++ b/sound/usb/card.c
@@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ static int snd_usb_create_streams(struct snd_usb_audio *chip, int ctrlif)

 static int snd_usb_audio_free(struct snd_usb_audio *chip)
 {
+	struct list_head *p, *n;
+
+	list_for_each_safe(p, n, &chip->ep_list)
+		snd_usb_endpoint_free(p);
+
 	mutex_destroy(&chip->mutex);
 	kfree(chip);
 	return 0;
@@ -580,7 +585,7 @@ static void snd_usb_audio_disconnect(struct usb_device *dev,
 				     struct snd_usb_audio *chip)
 {
 	struct snd_card *card;
-	struct list_head *p, *n;
+	struct list_head *p;

 	if (chip == (void *)-1L)
 		return;
@@ -593,14 +598,16 @@ static void snd_usb_audio_disconnect(struct usb_device *dev,
 	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
 	chip->num_interfaces--;
 	if (chip->num_interfaces <= 0) {
+		struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep;
+
 		snd_card_disconnect(card);
 		/* release the pcm resources */
 		list_for_each(p, &chip->pcm_list) {
 			snd_usb_stream_disconnect(p);
 		}
 		/* release the endpoint resources */
-		list_for_each_safe(p, n, &chip->ep_list) {
-			snd_usb_endpoint_free(p);
+		list_for_each_entry(ep, &chip->ep_list, list) {
+			snd_usb_endpoint_release(ep);
 		}
 		/* release the midi resources */
 		list_for_each(p, &chip->midi_list) {
diff --git a/sound/usb/endpoint.c b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
index 814430f..105ece3 100644
--- a/sound/usb/endpoint.c
+++ b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
@@ -981,19 +981,30 @@ void snd_usb_endpoint_deactivate(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep)
 }

 /**
+ * snd_usb_endpoint_release: Tear down an snd_usb_endpoint
+ *
+ * @ep: the endpoint to release
+ *
+ * This function does not care for the endpoint's use count but will tear
+ * down all the streaming URBs immediately.
+ */
+void snd_usb_endpoint_release(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep)
+{
+	release_urbs(ep, 1);
+}
+
+/**
  * snd_usb_endpoint_free: Free the resources of an snd_usb_endpoint
  *
  * @ep: the list header of the endpoint to free
  *
- * This function does not care for the endpoint's use count but will tear
- * down all the streaming URBs immediately and free all resources.
+ * This free all resources of the given ep.
  */
 void snd_usb_endpoint_free(struct list_head *head)
 {
 	struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep;

 	ep = list_entry(head, struct snd_usb_endpoint, list);
-	release_urbs(ep, 1);
 	kfree(ep);
 }

diff --git a/sound/usb/endpoint.h b/sound/usb/endpoint.h
index 1c7e8ee..e61ee5c 100644
--- a/sound/usb/endpoint.h
+++ b/sound/usb/endpoint.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ void snd_usb_endpoint_stop(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep);
 void snd_usb_endpoint_sync_pending_stop(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep);
 int  snd_usb_endpoint_activate(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep);
 void snd_usb_endpoint_deactivate(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep);
+void snd_usb_endpoint_release(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep);
 void snd_usb_endpoint_free(struct list_head *head);

 int snd_usb_endpoint_implicit_feedback_sink(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep);
--
1.9.1