ALSA: control: Fix race between adding and removing a user element
commit e1a7bfe3 upstream. The procedure for adding a user control element has some window opened for race against the concurrent removal of a user element. This was caught by syzkaller, hitting a KASAN use-after-free error. This patch addresses the bug by wrapping the whole procedure to add a user control element with the card->controls_rwsem, instead of only around the increment of card->user_ctl_count. This required a slight code refactoring, too. The function snd_ctl_add() is split to two parts: a core function to add the control element and a part calling it. The former is called from the function for adding a user control element inside the controls_rwsem. One change to be noted is that snd_ctl_notify() for adding a control element gets called inside the controls_rwsem as well while it was called outside the rwsem. But this should be OK, as snd_ctl_notify() takes another (finer) rwlock instead of rwsem, and the call of snd_ctl_notify() inside rwsem is already done in another code path. Reported-by: syzbot+dc09047bce3820621ba2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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