ALSA: timer - Fix Oops at closing slave timer
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:24:46 +0000 (12:24 +0200)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Thu, 17 May 2012 15:21:28 +0000 (11:21 -0400)
commit 0584ffa548b6e59aceb027112f23a55f0133400e upstream.

A slave-timer instance has no timer reference, and this results in
NULL-dereference at stopping the timer, typically called at closing
the device.

Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40682

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
sound/core/timer.c

index 5040c7b862fe6f571fb9a231e00819758ca2a632..ecb2dd500a10ec1d17154dcf7cb2cf5d5b100bed 100644 (file)
@@ -530,6 +530,8 @@ int snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
        if (err < 0)
                return err;
        timer = timeri->timer;
+       if (!timer)
+               return -EINVAL;
        spin_lock_irqsave(&timer->lock, flags);
        timeri->cticks = timeri->ticks;
        timeri->pticks = 0;