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Daniel Mentz 7e1d90f60a ALSA: seq: 2nd attempt at fixing race creating a queue
commit 4842e98f26 ("ALSA: seq: Fix race at
creating a queue") attempted to fix a race reported by syzkaller. That
fix has been described as follows:

"
When a sequencer queue is created in snd_seq_queue_alloc(),it adds the
new queue element to the public list before referencing it.  Thus the
queue might be deleted before the call of snd_seq_queue_use(), and it
results in the use-after-free error, as spotted by syzkaller.

The fix is to reference the queue object at the right time.
"

Even with that fix in place, syzkaller reported a use-after-free error.
It specifically pointed to the last instruction "return q->queue" in
snd_seq_queue_alloc(). The pointer q is being used after kfree() has
been called on it.

It turned out that there is still a small window where a race can
happen. The window opens at
snd_seq_ioctl_create_queue()->snd_seq_queue_alloc()->queue_list_add()
and closes at
snd_seq_ioctl_create_queue()->queueptr()->snd_use_lock_use(). Between
these two calls, a different thread could delete the queue and possibly
re-create a different queue in the same location in queue_list.

This change prevents this situation by calling snd_use_lock_use() from
snd_seq_queue_alloc() prior to calling queue_list_add(). It is then the
caller's responsibility to call snd_use_lock_free(&q->use_lock).

Fixes: 4842e98f26 ("ALSA: seq: Fix race at creating a queue")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2017-08-15 08:02:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1a60d4c5a0 [ALSA] semaphore -> mutex (core part)
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-03-22 10:24:50 +01:00
Takashi Iwai c7e0b5bf9f [ALSA] Remove xxx_t typedefs: Sequencer
Modules: ALSA sequencer

Remove xxx_t typedefs from the core sequencer codes.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-01-03 12:17:52 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 123992f728 [ALSA] sound/core/: possible cleanups
PCM Midlevel,ALSA Core,Timer Midlevel,ALSA sequencer,Virtual Midi
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 the following unused global functions
- remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-05-29 10:11:20 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00