• Takashi Iwai's avatar
    ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling · c8ca4c5a
    Takashi Iwai authored
    commit b5a663aa upstream.
    
    A slave timer instance might be still accessible in a racy way while
    operating the master instance as it lacks of locking.  Since the
    master operation is mostly protected with timer->lock, we should cope
    with it while changing the slave instance, too.  Also, some linked
    lists (active_list and ack_list) of slave instances aren't unlinked
    immediately at stopping or closing, and this may lead to unexpected
    accesses.
    
    This patch tries to address these issues.  It adds spin lock of
    timer->lock (either from master or slave, which is equivalent) in a
    few places.  For avoiding a deadlock, we ensure that the global
    slave_active_lock is always locked at first before each timer lock.
    
    Also, ack and active_list of slave instances are properly unlinked at
    snd_timer_stop() and snd_timer_close().
    
    Last but not least, remove the superfluous call of _snd_timer_stop()
    at removing slave links.  This is a noop, and calling it may confuse
    readers wrt locking.  Further cleanup will follow in a later patch.
    
    Actually we've got reports of use-after-free by syzkaller fuzzer, and
    this hopefully fixes these issues.
    Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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