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ALSA: pcm: Fix UAF at PCM release via PCM timer access
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The PCM runtime object is created and freed dynamically at PCM stream
open / close time.  This is tracked via substream->runtime, and it's
cleared at snd_pcm_detach_substream().

The runtime object assignment is protected by PCM open_mutex, so for
all PCM operations, it's safely handled.  However, each PCM substream
provides also an ALSA timer interface, and user-space can access to
this while closing a PCM substream.  This may eventually lead to a
UAF, as snd_pcm_timer_resolution() tries to access the runtime while
clearing it in other side.

Fortunately, it's the only concurrent access from the PCM timer, and
it merely reads runtime->timer_resolution field.  So, we can avoid the
race by reordering kfree() and wrapping the substream->runtime
clearance with the corresponding timer lock.

Reported-by: syzbot+8e62ff4e07aa2ce87826@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai committed Apr 3, 2018
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion sound/core/pcm.c
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#include <sound/core.h>
#include <sound/minors.h>
#include <sound/pcm.h>
#include <sound/timer.h>
#include <sound/control.h>
#include <sound/info.h>

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snd_free_pages((void*)runtime->control,
PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct snd_pcm_mmap_control)));
kfree(runtime->hw_constraints.rules);
kfree(runtime);
/* Avoid concurrent access to runtime via PCM timer interface */
if (substream->timer)
spin_lock_irq(&substream->timer->lock);
substream->runtime = NULL;
if (substream->timer)
spin_unlock_irq(&substream->timer->lock);
kfree(runtime);
put_pid(substream->pid);
substream->pid = NULL;
substream->pstr->substream_opened--;
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