linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 039/254] ALSA: seq: Remove spurious WARN

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Message-ID: <lsq.1519831218.773083876@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:20:18 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "syzbot" <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 039/254] ALSA: seq: Remove spurious WARN_ON() at
 timer check

3.16.55-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

commit 43a3542870328601be02fcc9d27b09db467336ef upstream.

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@...glegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static int initialize_timer(struct snd_s
 	unsigned long freq;
 
 	t = tmr->timeri->timer;
-	if (snd_BUG_ON(!t))
+	if (!t)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	freq = tmr->preferred_resolution;