Revision 7e1d90f60a0d501c8503e636942ca704a454d910 authored by Daniel Mentz on 14 August 2017, 21:46:01 UTC, committed by Takashi Iwai on 15 August 2017, 06:02:35 UTC
commit 4842e98f26dd80be3623c4714a244ba52ea096a8 ("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: 4842e98f26dd ("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>
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README
Linux kernel
============
This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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