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 <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index 749857a889e692c8c628ee6af45d9f4141cf9b80..98904d8e51dbe69de26f941c96cfdd7d96a6de62 100644 (file)
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1659,9 +1659,21 @@ static int snd_timer_user_params(struct file *file,
                return -EBADFD;
        if (copy_from_user(&params, _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)) {