[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: timer: Handle disconnection more safely" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jan 27 00:13:12 UTC 2016


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

    ALSA: timer: Handle disconnection more safely

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

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>From 1fcd225d371cadb8a14bd8bb828b911711908d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:19:31 +0100
Subject: ALSA: timer: Handle disconnection more safely

commit 230323dac060123c340cf75997971145a42661ee upstream.

Currently ALSA timer device doesn't take the disconnection into
account very well; it merely unlinks the timer device at disconnection
callback but does nothing else.  Because of this, when an application
accessing the timer device is disconnected, it may release the
resource before actually closed.  In most cases, it results in a
warning message indicating a leftover timer instance like:
   ALSA: timer xxxx is busy?
But basically this is an open race.

This patch tries to address it.  The strategy is like other ALSA
devices: namely,
- Manage card's refcount at each open/close
- Wake up the pending tasks at disconnection
- Check the shutdown flag appropriately at each possible call

Note that this patch has one ugly hack to handle the wakeup of pending
tasks.  It'd be cleaner to introduce a new disconnect op to
snd_timer_instance ops.  But since it would lead to internal ABI
breakage and it eventually increase my own work when backporting to
stable kernels, I took a different path to implement locally in
timer.c.  A cleanup patch will follow at next for 4.5 kernel.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109431
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/timer.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index 4e8d7bf..0a049c4 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct snd_timer_user {
 	int qtail;
 	int qused;
 	int queue_size;
+	bool disconnected;
 	struct snd_timer_read *queue;
 	struct snd_timer_tread *tqueue;
 	spinlock_t qlock;
@@ -290,6 +291,9 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti,
 		mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
+	/* take a card refcount for safe disconnection */
+	if (timer->card)
+		get_device(&timer->card->card_dev);
 	timeri->slave_class = tid->dev_sclass;
 	timeri->slave_id = slave_id;
 	if (list_empty(&timer->open_list_head) && timer->hw.open)
@@ -360,6 +364,9 @@ int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&timer->lock);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
+		/* release a card refcount for safe disconnection */
+		if (timer->card)
+			put_device(&timer->card->card_dev);
 		mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 	}
  out:
@@ -475,6 +482,8 @@ int snd_timer_start(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, unsigned int ticks)
 	timer = timeri->timer;
 	if (timer == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
+		return -ENODEV;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock, flags);
 	timeri->ticks = timeri->cticks = ticks;
 	timeri->pticks = 0;
@@ -509,6 +518,10 @@ static int _snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance * timeri,
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock, flags);
 	list_del_init(&timeri->ack_list);
 	list_del_init(&timeri->active_list);
+	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timer->lock, flags);
+		return 0;
+	}
 	if ((timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING) &&
 	    !(--timer->running)) {
 		timer->hw.stop(timer);
@@ -571,6 +584,8 @@ int snd_timer_continue(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 	timer = timeri->timer;
 	if (! timer)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
+		return -ENODEV;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock, flags);
 	if (!timeri->cticks)
 		timeri->cticks = 1;
@@ -634,6 +649,9 @@ static void snd_timer_tasklet(unsigned long arg)
 	unsigned long resolution, ticks;
 	unsigned long flags;

+	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock, flags);
 	/* now process all callbacks */
 	while (!list_empty(&timer->sack_list_head)) {
@@ -674,6 +692,9 @@ void snd_timer_interrupt(struct snd_timer * timer, unsigned long ticks_left)
 	if (timer == NULL)
 		return;

+	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
+		return;
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock, flags);

 	/* remember the current resolution */
@@ -884,11 +905,28 @@ static int snd_timer_dev_register(struct snd_device *dev)
 	return 0;
 }

+/* just for reference in snd_timer_dev_disconnect() below */
+static void snd_timer_user_ccallback(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
+				     int event, struct timespec *tstamp,
+				     unsigned long resolution);
+
 static int snd_timer_dev_disconnect(struct snd_device *device)
 {
 	struct snd_timer *timer = device->device_data;
+	struct snd_timer_instance *ti;
+
 	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
 	list_del_init(&timer->device_list);
+	/* wake up pending sleepers */
+	list_for_each_entry(ti, &timer->open_list_head, open_list) {
+		/* FIXME: better to have a ti.disconnect() op */
+		if (ti->ccallback == snd_timer_user_ccallback) {
+			struct snd_timer_user *tu = ti->callback_data;
+
+			tu->disconnected = true;
+			wake_up(&tu->qchange_sleep);
+		}
+	}
 	mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -899,6 +937,8 @@ void snd_timer_notify(struct snd_timer *timer, int event, struct timespec *tstam
 	unsigned long resolution = 0;
 	struct snd_timer_instance *ti, *ts;

+	if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
+		return;
 	if (! (timer->hw.flags & SNDRV_TIMER_HW_SLAVE))
 		return;
 	if (snd_BUG_ON(event < SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_MSTART ||
@@ -1057,6 +1097,8 @@ static void snd_timer_proc_read(struct snd_info_entry *entry,

 	mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
 	list_for_each_entry(timer, &snd_timer_list, device_list) {
+		if (timer->card && timer->card->shutdown)
+			continue;
 		switch (timer->tmr_class) {
 		case SNDRV_TIMER_CLASS_GLOBAL:
 			snd_iprintf(buffer, "G%i: ", timer->tmr_device);
@@ -1882,6 +1924,10 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,

 			remove_wait_queue(&tu->qchange_sleep, &wait);

+			if (tu->disconnected) {
+				err = -ENODEV;
+				break;
+			}
 			if (signal_pending(current)) {
 				err = -ERESTARTSYS;
 				break;
@@ -1931,6 +1977,8 @@ static unsigned int snd_timer_user_poll(struct file *file, poll_table * wait)
 	mask = 0;
 	if (tu->qused)
 		mask |= POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
+	if (tu->disconnected)
+		mask |= POLLERR;

 	return mask;
 }
--
1.9.1





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