linux-kernel - Re: ALSA: intel8x0: div by zero in snd_intel8x0

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Message-ID: <YKEAqdIAZ5K5FS+1@google.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 May 2021 20:23:21 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ALSA: intel8x0: div by zero in snd_intel8x0_update()

On (21/05/16 11:49), Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: intel8x0: Don't update period unless prepared
> 
> The interrupt handler of intel8x0 calls snd_intel8x0_update() whenever
> the hardware sets the corresponding status bit for each stream.  This
> works fine for most cases as long as the hardware behaves properly.
> But when the hardware gives a wrong bit set, this leads to a NULL
> dereference Oops, and reportedly, this seems what happened on a VM.

VM, yes. I didn't see NULL derefs, my VMs crash because of div by
zero in `% size`.

> For fixing the crash, this patch adds a internal flag indicating that
> the stream is ready to be updated, and check it (as well as the flag
> being in suspended) to ignore such spurious update.

I reproduced the "spurious IRQ" case, and the patch handled it correctly
(VM did not crash).

> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

I'll keep running test, but seems that it works as intended

Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>