From patchwork Mon Mar 7 22:33:30 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 593430 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57560140082; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:43:11 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3ro-0003K1-3U; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:43:08 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3iY-0006fN-CQ for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:33:34 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3iX-0007Py-Rf; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:33:34 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3iV-0007xd-6y; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:33:31 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Takashi Iwai Subject: [4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:33:30 -0800 Message-Id: <1457390010-30566-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 788c90159dfd9038412a2a95bda085c0adbfe53a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:26:58 +0100 Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads commit 4dff5c7b7093b19c19d3a100f8a3ad87cb7cd9e7 upstream. snd_timer_user_read() has a potential race among parallel reads, as qhead and qused are updated outside the critical section due to copy_to_user() calls. Move them into the critical section, and also sanitize the relevant code a bit. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- sound/core/timer.c | 34 +++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) -- 2.7.0 diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index 05745c46..f24c9fc 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -1924,6 +1924,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, { struct snd_timer_user *tu; long result = 0, unit; + int qhead; int err = 0; tu = file->private_data; @@ -1935,7 +1936,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) != 0 || result > 0) { err = -EAGAIN; - break; + goto _error; } set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); @@ -1950,42 +1951,37 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, if (tu->disconnected) { err = -ENODEV; - break; + goto _error; } if (signal_pending(current)) { err = -ERESTARTSYS; - break; + goto _error; } } + qhead = tu->qhead++; + tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size; spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); - if (err < 0) - goto _error; if (tu->tread) { - if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[tu->qhead++], - sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread))) { + if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[qhead], + sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread))) err = -EFAULT; - goto _error; - } } else { - if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->queue[tu->qhead++], - sizeof(struct snd_timer_read))) { + if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->queue[qhead], + sizeof(struct snd_timer_read))) err = -EFAULT; - goto _error; - } } - tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size; - - result += unit; - buffer += unit; - spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock); tu->qused--; + if (err < 0) + goto _error; + result += unit; + buffer += unit; } - spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); _error: + spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); return result > 0 ? result : err; }