4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takashi Iwai <redacted>

commit 3fa6993fef634e05d200d141a85df0b044572364 upstream.

The user timer tu->qused counter may go to a negative value when
multiple concurrent reads are performed since both the check and the
decrement of tu->qused are done in two individual locked contexts.
This results in bogus read outs, and the endless loop in the
user-space side.

The fix is to move the decrement of the tu->qused counter into the
same spinlock context as the zero-check of the counter.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/timer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c

@@ -1961,6 +1961,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc
 
 		qhead = tu->qhead++;
 		tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size;
+		tu->qused--;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 
 		if (tu->tread) {

@@ -1974,7 +1975,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc
 		}
 
 		spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock);
-		tu->qused--;
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto _error;
 		result += unit;