[PATCH 5.15.y] ALSA: usb-audio: Kill timer properly at removal

From: Johnny Hao

Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 01:58:25 EST


From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0718a78f6a9f04b88d0dc9616cc216b31c5f3cf1 ]

The USB-audio MIDI code initializes the timer, but in a rare case, the
driver might be freed without the disconnect call. This leaves the
timer in an active state while the assigned object is released via
snd_usbmidi_free(), which ends up with a kernel warning when the debug
configuration is enabled, as spotted by fuzzer.

For avoiding the problem, put timer_shutdown_sync() at
snd_usbmidi_free(), so that the timer can be killed properly.
While we're at it, replace the existing timer_delete_sync() at the
disconnect callback with timer_shutdown_sync(), too.

Reported-by: syzbot+d8f72178ab6783a7daea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/681c70d7.050a0220.a19a9.00c6.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250519212031.14436-1-tiwai@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
[ The context change is due to the commit 8fa7292fee5c
("treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()")
in v6.15 which is irrelevant to the logic of this patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Johnny Hao <johnny_haocn@xxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/midi.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/midi.c b/sound/usb/midi.c
index c6586da43a04..932ad94575e5 100644
--- a/sound/usb/midi.c
+++ b/sound/usb/midi.c
@@ -1530,6 +1530,7 @@ static void snd_usbmidi_free(struct snd_usb_midi *umidi)
snd_usbmidi_in_endpoint_delete(ep->in);
}
mutex_destroy(&umidi->mutex);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&umidi->error_timer);
kfree(umidi);
}

@@ -1553,7 +1554,7 @@ void snd_usbmidi_disconnect(struct list_head *p)
spin_unlock_irq(&umidi->disc_lock);
up_write(&umidi->disc_rwsem);

- del_timer_sync(&umidi->error_timer);
+ timer_shutdown_sync(&umidi->error_timer);

for (i = 0; i < MIDI_MAX_ENDPOINTS; ++i) {
struct snd_usb_midi_endpoint *ep = &umidi->endpoints[i];
--
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