ALSA: seq: Fix missing error handling in snd_seq_timer_open()
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:11:17 +0000 (18:11 +0100)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:40:36 +0000 (09:40 +0100)
snd_seq_timer_open() didn't catch the whole error path but let through
if the timer id is a slave.  This may lead to Oops by accessing the
uninitialized pointer.

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002ae
 IP: [<ffffffff819b3477>] snd_seq_timer_open+0xe7/0x130
 PGD 785cd067 PUD 76964067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0002 [#4] SMP
 CPU 0
 Pid: 4288, comm: trinity-child7 Tainted: G      D W 3.9.0-rc1+ #100 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff819b3477>]  [<ffffffff819b3477>] snd_seq_timer_open+0xe7/0x130
 RSP: 0018:ffff88006ece7d38  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000286 RBX: ffff88007851b400 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 000000000000ffff RSI: ffff88006ece7d58 RDI: ffff88006ece7d38
 RBP: ffff88006ece7d98 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 000000000000fffe
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff8800792c5400 R14: 0000000000e8f000 R15: 0000000000000007
 FS:  00007f7aaa650700(0000) GS:ffff88007f800000(0000) GS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00000000000002ae CR3: 000000006efec000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process trinity-child7 (pid: 4288, threadinfo ffff88006ece6000, task ffff880076a8a290)
 Stack:
  0000000000000286 ffffffff828f2be0 ffff88006ece7d58 ffffffff810f354d
  65636e6575716573 2065756575712072 ffff8800792c0030 0000000000000000
  ffff88006ece7d98 ffff8800792c5400 ffff88007851b400 ffff8800792c5520
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff810f354d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
  [<ffffffff819b17e9>] snd_seq_queue_timer_open+0x29/0x70
  [<ffffffff819ae01a>] snd_seq_ioctl_set_queue_timer+0xda/0x120
  [<ffffffff819acb9b>] snd_seq_do_ioctl+0x9b/0xd0
  [<ffffffff819acbe0>] snd_seq_ioctl+0x10/0x20
  [<ffffffff811b9542>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x522/0x570
  [<ffffffff8130a4b3>] ? file_has_perm+0x83/0xa0
  [<ffffffff810f354d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
  [<ffffffff811b95ed>] sys_ioctl+0x5d/0xa0
  [<ffffffff813663fe>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
  [<ffffffff81faed69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c

index 160b1bd0cd62262931896573953e990736e4da52..24d44b2f61acda72453e5be78958aae15b8afccf 100644 (file)
@@ -290,10 +290,10 @@ int snd_seq_timer_open(struct snd_seq_queue *q)
                        tid.device = SNDRV_TIMER_GLOBAL_SYSTEM;
                        err = snd_timer_open(&t, str, &tid, q->queue);
                }
-               if (err < 0) {
-                       snd_printk(KERN_ERR "seq fatal error: cannot create timer (%i)\n", err);
-                       return err;
-               }
+       }
+       if (err < 0) {
+               snd_printk(KERN_ERR "seq fatal error: cannot create timer (%i)\n", err);
+               return err;
        }
        t->callback = snd_seq_timer_interrupt;
        t->callback_data = q;