• Evan Green's avatar
    ALSA: hda: Fix widget_mutex incomplete protection · 98482377
    Evan Green authored
    The widget_mutex was introduced to serialize callers to
    hda_widget_sysfs_{re}init. However, its protection of the sysfs widget array
    is incomplete. For example, it is acquired around the call to
    hda_widget_sysfs_reinit(), which actually creates the new array, but isn't
    still acquired when codec->num_nodes and codec->start_nid is updated. So
    the lock ensures one thread sets up the new array at a time, but doesn't
    ensure which thread's value will end up in codec->num_nodes. If a larger
    num_nodes wins but a smaller array was set up, the next call to
    refresh_widgets() will touch free memory as it iterates over codec->num_nodes
    that aren't there.
    
    The widget_lock really protects both the tree as well as codec->num_nodes,
    start_nid, and end_nid, so make sure it's held across that update. It should
    also be held during snd_hdac_get_sub_nodes(), so that a very old read from that
    function doesn't end up clobbering a later update.
    
    Fixes: ed180abb ("ALSA: hda: Fix race between creating and refreshing sysfs entries")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEvan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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