linux/include
Takashi Iwai 9b7d869ee5 ALSA: timer: Limit max instances per timer
Currently we allow unlimited number of timer instances, and it may
bring the system hogging way too much CPU when too many timer
instances are opened and processed concurrently.  This may end up with
a soft-lockup report as triggered by syzkaller, especially when
hrtimer backend is deployed.

Since such insane number of instances aren't demanded by the normal
use case of ALSA sequencer and it merely  opens a risk only for abuse,
this patch introduces the upper limit for the number of instances per
timer backend.  As default, it's set to 1000, but for the fine-grained
timer like hrtimer, it's set to 100.

Reported-by: syzbot
Tested-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2017-11-06 10:41:24 +01:00
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acpi ACPI / bus: Make ACPI_HANDLE() work for non-GPL code again 2017-09-19 22:42:31 +02:00
asm-generic percpu: make this_cpu_generic_read() atomic w.r.t. interrupts 2017-09-26 07:37:33 -07:00
clocksource
crypto
drm lib/interval_tree: fast overlap detection 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
dt-bindings ARC: reset: remove the misleading v1 suffix all over 2017-09-18 13:02:03 +02:00
keys
kvm
linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-29 08:11:49 -07:00
math-emu
media media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
memory
misc
net net_sched: introduce a workqueue for RCU callbacks of tc filter 2017-10-29 22:49:30 +09:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma IB: Correct MR length field to be 64-bit 2017-09-25 11:47:23 -04:00
scsi scsi: libiscsi: Remove iscsi_destroy_session 2017-10-02 22:23:21 -04:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.14 2017-09-10 20:40:00 -07:00
sound ALSA: timer: Limit max instances per timer 2017-11-06 10:41:24 +01:00
target
trace sched/debug: Add explicit TASK_PARKED printing 2017-09-29 11:02:57 +02:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-29 08:11:49 -07:00
video
xen xen, arm64: drop dummy lookup_address() 2017-09-19 09:25:05 -04:00