ALSA: timer: Fix incorrectly assigned timer instance

The clean up commit 41672c0c24a6 ("ALSA: timer: Simplify error path in
snd_timer_open()") unified the error handling code paths with the
standard goto, but it introduced a subtle bug: the timer instance is
stored in snd_timer_open() incorrectly even if it returns an error.
This may eventually lead to UAF, as spotted by fuzzer.

The culprit is the snd_timer_open() code checks the
SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_EXCLUSIVE flag with the common variable timeri.
This variable is supposed to be the newly created instance, but we
(ab-)used it for a temporary check before the actual creation of a
timer instance.  After that point, there is another check for the max
number of instances, and it bails out if over the threshold.  Before
the refactoring above, it worked fine because the code returned
directly from that point.  After the refactoring, however, it jumps to
the unified error path that stores the timeri variable in return --
even if it returns an error.  Unfortunately this stored value is kept
in the caller side (snd_timer_user_tselect()) in tu->timeri.  This
causes inconsistency later, as if the timer was successfully
assigned.

In this patch, we fix it by not re-using timeri variable but a
temporary variable for testing the exclusive connection, so timeri
remains NULL at that point.

Bug 2965120

Change-Id: Ieb7be2c6d7bb3ee72e781147fba865bb6f40b3ca
Fixes: 41672c0c24a6 ("ALSA: timer: Simplify error path in snd_timer_open()")
Reported-and-tested-by: Tristan Madani <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://git-master.nvidia.com/r/c/linux-4.9/+/2405685
Reviewed-by: Bibek Basu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: mobile promotions <[email protected]>
GVS: Gerrit_Virtual_Submit
Tested-by: Bibek Basu <[email protected]>
Tested-by: mobile promotions <[email protected]>

Author: amulya Y

sound/core/timer.c

@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti,
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	if (!list_empty(&timer->open_list_head)) {
-		timeri = list_entry(timer->open_list_head.next,
+		struct snd_timer_instance *t = list_entry(timer->open_list_head.next,
 				    struct snd_timer_instance, open_list);
-		if (timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_EXCLUSIVE) {
+		if (t->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_EXCLUSIVE) {
 			mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 			return -EBUSY;
 		}