From: Takashi Iwai Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:49:07 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ALSA: timer: Reject user params with too small ticks X-Git-Tag: v3.2.89~36 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pandora-kernel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=6192d8b51aa85f9947d2203ea02b4dccfd083ee7 ALSA: timer: Reject user params with too small ticks commit 71321eb3f2d0df4e6c327e0b936eec4458a12054 upstream. When a user sets a too small ticks with a fine-grained timer like hrtimer, the kernel tries to fire up the timer irq too frequently. This may lead to the condensed locks, eventually the kernel spinlock lockup with warnings. For avoiding such a situation, we define a lower limit of the resolution, namely 1ms. When the user passes a too small tick value that results in less than that, the kernel returns -EINVAL now. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index 5628b6548d18..87edf12a1025 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -1669,9 +1669,21 @@ static int snd_timer_user_params(struct file *file, return -EBADFD; if (copy_from_user(¶ms, _params, sizeof(params))) return -EFAULT; - if (!(t->hw.flags & SNDRV_TIMER_HW_SLAVE) && params.ticks < 1) { - err = -EINVAL; - goto _end; + if (!(t->hw.flags & SNDRV_TIMER_HW_SLAVE)) { + u64 resolution; + + if (params.ticks < 1) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto _end; + } + + /* Don't allow resolution less than 1ms */ + resolution = snd_timer_resolution(tu->timeri); + resolution *= params.ticks; + if (resolution < 1000000) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto _end; + } } if (params.queue_size > 0 && (params.queue_size < 32 || params.queue_size > 1024)) {