A userspace-driven ALSA timer (SND_UTIMER) lets an unprivileged user set
the backing snd_timer's hardware resolution to an arbitrary 64-bit value
via SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_CREATE. snd_utimer_create() only rejects zero.
When such a timer is bound to a sequencer queue, initialize_timer()
computes the tick period as
tmr->ticks = 1000000000 / (r * freq);
where r is that user-controlled resolution and freq is the sequencer
update rate in Hz, clamped to MIN_FREQUENCY..MAX_FREQUENCY (10..6250).
A resolution of 2^63 makes the 64-bit product r * freq wrap to zero for
any even freq, including DEFAULT_FREQUENCY (1000), so the division faults
with a divide-by-zero.
The division runs under tmr->lock with interrupts disabled, so the oops
leaves the spinlock held and hangs the CPU. It is reachable by an
unprivileged user with access to /dev/snd/timer and /dev/snd/seq.
Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 456 Comm: alsa_seq_utimer Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4+
RIP: 0010:initialize_timer.constprop.0+0x20a/0x2d0
snd_seq_timer_start+0x15e/0x2b0
snd_seq_control_queue+0x56f/0xba0
snd_seq_write+0x3e0/0x730
Reject an overflowing product with check_mul_overflow() and fall back to
a single tick, which also avoids feeding a wrapped-but-nonzero divisor
(e.g. 2^63 * 1000 mod 2^64 == 0, or other resolutions wrapping to a small
value) into the period computation.
Fixes: 37745918e0 ("ALSA: timer: Introduce virtual userspace-driven timers")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/DF8A3844-AD5E-4B8A-9CFC-BD83C212BA38@doyensec.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
queue_delete() closes the queue timer, then frees it. snd_seq_timer_close()
clears q->timer->timeri. snd_use_lock_sync() then drains borrowers, and
snd_seq_timer_delete() frees q->timer.
A borrower can re-open the timer inside that window. A SET_QUEUE_CLIENT
that took a queueptr() use_lock reference before the queue was unlinked
runs snd_seq_timer_open() after the close. Open refuses re-open only while
timeri is set, and the close just cleared it, so it re-opens timeri.
snd_seq_timer_delete() does not close that instance. Its snd_seq_timer_stop()
is a no-op, because running was cleared first. So it frees q->timer with the
instance still live. The queue is freed next.
The instance stays on the global timer with callback_data pointing at the
freed queue. A non-owner START on the unlocked queue arms it. The next tick
derefs the freed queue in snd_seq_timer_interrupt().
Reachable by an unprivileged user with access to /dev/snd/seq. No CAP and
no queue ownership required.
Close any lingering instance in the destructor. There, ->timeri can no
longer change: the queue is unlinked and all use_lock borrowers have
drained, so no snd_seq_queue_use() can re-open it. Close it before clearing
q->timer. snd_timer_close() waits for any in-flight snd_seq_timer_interrupt()
to finish, and that callback still reads q->timer (via snd_seq_check_queue()),
so q->timer must stay valid until it drains.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Norbert Szetei <norbert@doyensec.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/422FDB81-2A68-47C7-A22D-2D3301E2E86D@doyensec.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
So far we've tried to address UAFs in ALSA timer code by applying the
locks at various places, but the fundamental problem is that the timer
object may be released while the belonging timer instance objects are
still present and accessing to it. This patch is a more proper fix to
address that issue, namely, by refcounting and keeping the timer
object.
The basic implementation is to use kref for the refcount of the timer
object, and take/release the reference at assigning/releasing the
instance, as well as at referring from ioctls or ALSA sequencer code.
The reference from ioctl or ALSA sequencer is abstracted with
snd_timeri_timer auto-cleanup.
Note that this change assumes that the code already took the fix
commit da3039e91d ("ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at
closing"); otherwise the refcount may be unbalanced when the timer is
freed while slave instances are still present.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609115100.806869-2-tiwai@suse.de
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Yet more cleanup with the auto-cleanup macro: now we replace the
queuefree() calls with the magic pointer attribute
__free(snd_seq_queue).
Only code refactoring, and no behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250827080520.7544-7-tiwai@suse.de
MIDI2 Set Tempo message defines the tempo in 10ns unit for finer
accuracy, while MIDI1 was defined in 1us unit. For adapting this
different unit, introduce "tempo_base" field to snd_seq_queue_tempo
struct so that user-space can pass the proper tempo base unit.
The accepted value is limited, it must be either 0, 10 or 1000.
The protocol version is bumped to 1.0.4 along with this.
The access with the older protocol version ignores the tempo-base
value in ioctls and always treats as 1000.
Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240705160344.6481-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The timer instance per queue is exclusive, and snd_seq_timer_open()
should have managed the concurrent accesses. It looks as if it's
checking the already existing timer instance at the beginning, but
it's not right, because there is no protection, hence any later
concurrent call of snd_seq_timer_open() may override the timer
instance easily. This may result in UAF, as the leftover timer
instance can keep running while the queue itself gets closed, as
spotted by syzkaller recently.
For avoiding the race, add a proper check at the assignment of
tmr->timeri again, and return -EBUSY if it's been already registered.
Reported-by: syzbot+ddc1260a83ed1cbf6fb5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000dce34f05c42f110c@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210610152059.24633-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
snd_seq_check_queue() passes the current tick and time of the given
queue as a pointer to snd_seq_prioq_cell_out(), but those might be
updated concurrently by the seq timer update.
Fix it by retrieving the current tick and time via the proper helper
functions at first, and pass those values to snd_seq_prioq_cell_out()
later in the loops.
snd_seq_timer_get_cur_time() takes a new argument and adjusts with the
current system time only when it's requested so; this update isn't
needed for snd_seq_check_queue(), as it's called either from the
interrupt handler or right after queuing.
Also, snd_seq_timer_get_cur_tick() is changed to read the value in the
spinlock for the concurrency, too.
Reported-by: syzbot+fd5e0eaa1a32999173b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200214111316.26939-3-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
When a new timer instance is created and assigned to the active link
in snd_timer_open(), the caller still doesn't (can't) set its callback
and callback data. In both the user-timer and the sequencer-timer
code, they do manually set up the callbacks after calling
snd_timer_open(). This has a potential risk of race when the timer
instance is added to the already running timer target, as the callback
might get triggered during setting up the callback itself.
This patch tries to address it by changing the API usage slightly:
- An empty timer instance is created at first via the new function
snd_timer_instance_new(). This object isn't linked to the timer
list yet.
- The caller sets up the callbacks and others stuff for the new timer
instance.
- The caller invokes snd_timer_open() with this instance, so that it's
linked to the target timer.
For closing, do similarly:
- Call snd_timer_close(). This unlinks the timer instance from the
timer list.
- Free the timer instance via snd_timer_instance_free() after that.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191107192008.32331-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Instead of open-coding for getting the timer resolution, use the
standard snd_timer_resolution() helper.
The original code falls back to the callback function when the
resolution is zero, but it must be always so when the callback
function is defined. So this should be no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_QUEUE_TEMPO ioctl sets the tempo and the ppq
in a single call, while the current implementation updates each value
one by one. This is a bit racy, and also suboptimal from the
performance POV, as each call does re-acquire the lock and invokes
the update of ALSA timer resolution.
This patch reorganizes the code slightly so that we change both the
tempo and the ppq in a shot. The skew value can be put into the same
lock, but this is rather a rarely used feature and completely
independent from the temp/ppq (it's evaluated only in the interrupt),
so it's left as it was.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The use of snd_BUG_ON() in ALSA sequencer timer may lead to a spurious
WARN_ON() when a slave timer is deployed as its backend and a
corresponding master timer stops meanwhile. The symptom was triggered
by syzkaller spontaneously.
Since the NULL timer is valid there, rip off snd_BUG_ON().
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The recent rewrite of the sequencer time accounting using timespec64
in the commit [3915bf2946: ALSA: seq_timer: use monotonic times
internally] introduced a bad regression. Namely, the time reported
back doesn't increase but goes back and forth.
The culprit was obvious: the delta is stored to the result (cur_time =
delta), instead of adding the delta (cur_time += delta)!
Let's fix it.
Fixes: 3915bf2946 ('ALSA: seq_timer: use monotonic times internally')
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177571
Reported-by: Yves Guillemot <yc.guillemot@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The sequencer client manager reports timestamps in units of unsigned
32-bit seconds/nanoseconds, but that does not suffer from the y2038
overflow because it stores only the delta since the 'last_update'
time was recorded.
However, the use of the do_gettimeofday() function is problematic
and we have to replace it to avoid the overflow on on 32-bit
architectures.
This uses 'struct timespec64' to record 'last_update', and changes
the code to use monotonic timestamps that do not suffer from leap
seconds and settimeofday updates.
As a side-effect, the code can now use the timespec64_sub() helper
and become more readable and also avoid a multiplication to convert
from microseconds to nanoseconds.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
We may disable proc fs only for sound part, to reduce ALSA
memory footprint. So add CONFIG_SND_PROC_FS and replace the
old CONFIG_PROC_FSs in alsa code.
With sound proc fs disabled, we can save about 9KB memory
size on X86_64 platform.
Signed-off-by: Jie Yang <yang.jie@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The kernel memory allocators already report the errors when the
requested allocation fails, thus we don't need to warn it again in
each caller side.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As snd_seq_timer_set_tick_resolution() is always called with the same
three fields of struct snd_seq_timer, it suffices to give that as the
only parameter.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Kill snd_assert() in sound/core/*, either removed or replaced with
if () with snd_BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
This header file exists only for some hacks to adapt alsa-driver
tree. It's useless for building in the kernel. Let's move a few
lines in it to sound/core.h and remove it.
With this patch, sound/driver.h isn't removed but has just a single
compile warning to include it. This should be really killed in
future.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Modules: ALSA<-OSS emulation,ALSA sequencer,ALSA<-OSS sequencer
Optimize the code when compiled without CONFIG_PROC_FS (in seq and oss
emulation parts).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Modules: ALSA sequencer
When no default timer frequency has been set, initialize_timer() just
uses the maximum frequency supported by the timer, which is ridiculously
high on 96 kHz timers.
This patch introduces a default frequency of 1000 Hz for this case, and
makes sure that a frequency set by the user isn't too high.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Modules: ALSA sequencer
Remove the last parameter of snd_seq_timer_set_tick_resolution()
because it is always one.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
PCM Midlevel,ALSA Core,Timer Midlevel,ALSA sequencer,Virtual Midi
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 the following unused global functions
- remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
