Thread (158 messages) 158 messages, 6 authors, 2016-02-01
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[PATCH 4.3 052/157] ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-01-27 18:59:26
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4.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takashi Iwai <redacted>

commit 3567eb6af614dac436c4b16a8d426f9faed639b3 upstream.

ALSA sequencer code has an open race between the timer setup ioctl and
the close of the client.  This was triggered by syzkaller fuzzer, and
a use-after-free was caught there as a result.

This patch papers over it by adding a proper queue->timer_mutex lock
around the timer-related calls in the relevant code path.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c
@@ -142,8 +142,10 @@ static struct snd_seq_queue *queue_new(i
 static void queue_delete(struct snd_seq_queue *q)
 {
 	/* stop and release the timer */
+	mutex_lock(&q->timer_mutex);
 	snd_seq_timer_stop(q->timer);
 	snd_seq_timer_close(q);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->timer_mutex);
 	/* wait until access free */
 	snd_use_lock_sync(&q->use_lock);
 	/* release resources... */

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