ALSA: timer: Fix possible race at assigning a timer instance

When a new timer instance is created and assigned to the active link
in snd_timer_open(), the caller still doesn't (can't) set its callback
and callback data.  In both the user-timer and the sequencer-timer
code, they do manually set up the callbacks after calling
snd_timer_open().  This has a potential risk of race when the timer
instance is added to the already running timer target, as the callback
might get triggered during setting up the callback itself.

This patch tries to address it by changing the API usage slightly:

- An empty timer instance is created at first via the new function
  snd_timer_instance_new().  This object isn't linked to the timer
  list yet.
- The caller sets up the callbacks and others stuff for the new timer
  instance.
- The caller invokes snd_timer_open() with this instance, so that it's
  linked to the target timer.

For closing, do similarly:

- Call snd_timer_close().  This unlinks the timer instance from the
  timer list.
- Free the timer instance via snd_timer_instance_free() after that.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191107192008.32331-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/sound/timer.h b/include/sound/timer.h
index 8a13c09c85f7..a53e37bcd746 100644
--- a/include/sound/timer.h
+++ b/include/sound/timer.h
@@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ int snd_timer_global_new(char *id, int device, struct snd_timer **rtimer);
 int snd_timer_global_free(struct snd_timer *timer);
 int snd_timer_global_register(struct snd_timer *timer);
 
-int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance **ti, char *owner, struct snd_timer_id *tid, unsigned int slave_id);
+struct snd_timer_instance *snd_timer_instance_new(const char *owner);
+void snd_timer_instance_free(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri);
+int snd_timer_open(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, struct snd_timer_id *tid, unsigned int slave_id);
 void snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri);
 unsigned long snd_timer_resolution(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri);
 int snd_timer_start(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri, unsigned int ticks);