Patch "ALSA: seq: Fix yet another races among ALSA timer accesses" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: seq: Fix yet another races among ALSA timer accesses

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     alsa-seq-fix-yet-another-races-among-alsa-timer-accesses.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2cdc7b636d55cbcf42e1e6c8accd85e62d3e9ae8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:30:25 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Fix yet another races among ALSA timer accesses

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 2cdc7b636d55cbcf42e1e6c8accd85e62d3e9ae8 upstream.

ALSA sequencer may open/close and control ALSA timer instance
dynamically either via sequencer events or direct ioctls.  These are
done mostly asynchronously, and it may call still some timer action
like snd_timer_start() while another is calling snd_timer_close().
Since the instance gets removed by snd_timer_close(), it may lead to
a use-after-free.

This patch tries to address such a race by protecting each
snd_timer_*() call via the existing spinlock and also by avoiding the
access to timer during close call.

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Z6RzW5MBr-HUdV-8zwg71WQfKTdPpYGvOeS7v4cyurNQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c |   87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ void snd_seq_timer_delete(struct snd_seq
 
 void snd_seq_timer_defaults(struct snd_seq_timer * tmr)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
 	/* setup defaults */
 	tmr->ppq = 96;		/* 96 PPQ */
 	tmr->tempo = 500000;	/* 120 BPM */
@@ -107,21 +110,25 @@ void snd_seq_timer_defaults(struct snd_s
 	tmr->preferred_resolution = seq_default_timer_resolution;
 
 	tmr->skew = tmr->skew_base = SKEW_BASE;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
 }
 
-void snd_seq_timer_reset(struct snd_seq_timer * tmr)
+static void seq_timer_reset(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
-
 	/* reset time & songposition */
 	tmr->cur_time.tv_sec = 0;
 	tmr->cur_time.tv_nsec = 0;
 
 	tmr->tick.cur_tick = 0;
 	tmr->tick.fraction = 0;
+}
+
+void snd_seq_timer_reset(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	seq_timer_reset(tmr);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
 }
 
@@ -140,8 +147,11 @@ static void snd_seq_timer_interrupt(stru
 	tmr = q->timer;
 	if (tmr == NULL)
 		return;
-	if (!tmr->running)
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	if (!tmr->running) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
 		return;
+	}
 
 	resolution *= ticks;
 	if (tmr->skew != tmr->skew_base) {
@@ -150,8 +160,6 @@ static void snd_seq_timer_interrupt(stru
 			(((resolution & 0xffff) * tmr->skew) >> 16);
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
-
 	/* update timer */
 	snd_seq_inc_time_nsec(&tmr->cur_time, resolution);
 
@@ -298,26 +306,30 @@ int snd_seq_timer_open(struct snd_seq_qu
 	t->callback = snd_seq_timer_interrupt;
 	t->callback_data = q;
 	t->flags |= SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_AUTO;
+	spin_lock_irq(&tmr->lock);
 	tmr->timeri = t;
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tmr->lock);
 	return 0;
 }
 
 int snd_seq_timer_close(struct snd_seq_queue *q)
 {
 	struct snd_seq_timer *tmr;
+	struct snd_timer_instance *t;
 	
 	tmr = q->timer;
 	if (snd_BUG_ON(!tmr))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (tmr->timeri) {
-		snd_timer_stop(tmr->timeri);
-		snd_timer_close(tmr->timeri);
-		tmr->timeri = NULL;
-	}
+	spin_lock_irq(&tmr->lock);
+	t = tmr->timeri;
+	tmr->timeri = NULL;
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tmr->lock);
+	if (t)
+		snd_timer_close(t);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int snd_seq_timer_stop(struct snd_seq_timer * tmr)
+static int seq_timer_stop(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
 {
 	if (! tmr->timeri)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -328,6 +340,17 @@ int snd_seq_timer_stop(struct snd_seq_ti
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int snd_seq_timer_stop(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int err;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	err = seq_timer_stop(tmr);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	return err;
+}
+
 static int initialize_timer(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
 {
 	struct snd_timer *t;
@@ -360,13 +383,13 @@ static int initialize_timer(struct snd_s
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int snd_seq_timer_start(struct snd_seq_timer * tmr)
+static int seq_timer_start(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
 {
 	if (! tmr->timeri)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (tmr->running)
-		snd_seq_timer_stop(tmr);
-	snd_seq_timer_reset(tmr);
+		seq_timer_stop(tmr);
+	seq_timer_reset(tmr);
 	if (initialize_timer(tmr) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	snd_timer_start(tmr->timeri, tmr->ticks);
@@ -375,14 +398,25 @@ int snd_seq_timer_start(struct snd_seq_t
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int snd_seq_timer_continue(struct snd_seq_timer * tmr)
+int snd_seq_timer_start(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int err;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	err = seq_timer_start(tmr);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int seq_timer_continue(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
 {
 	if (! tmr->timeri)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (tmr->running)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	if (! tmr->initialized) {
-		snd_seq_timer_reset(tmr);
+		seq_timer_reset(tmr);
 		if (initialize_timer(tmr) < 0)
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -392,11 +426,24 @@ int snd_seq_timer_continue(struct snd_se
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int snd_seq_timer_continue(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int err;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	err = seq_timer_continue(tmr);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
+	return err;
+}
+
 /* return current 'real' time. use timeofday() to get better granularity. */
 snd_seq_real_time_t snd_seq_timer_get_cur_time(struct snd_seq_timer *tmr)
 {
 	snd_seq_real_time_t cur_time;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tmr->lock, flags);
 	cur_time = tmr->cur_time;
 	if (tmr->running) { 
 		struct timeval tm;
@@ -412,7 +459,7 @@ snd_seq_real_time_t snd_seq_timer_get_cu
 		}
 		snd_seq_sanity_real_time(&cur_time);
 	}
-                
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmr->lock, flags);
 	return cur_time;	
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@suse.de are

queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-closing-in-virmidi-driver.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-rawmidi-remove-kernel-warning-for-null-user-space-buffer-check.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-lockdep-warnings-due-to-double-mutex-locks.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-fix-teac-ud-501-ud-503-nt-503-usb-delay.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-wrong-instance-passed-to-slave-callbacks.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-compress-disable-get_codec_caps-ioctl-for-some-architectures.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-hda-fix-speaker-output-from-vaio-aio-machines.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-dummy-implement-timer-backend-switching-more-safely.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-dummy-disable-switching-timer-backend-via-sysfs.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-incorrect-sanity-check-at-snd_seq_oss_synth_cleanup.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-seq-fix-yet-another-races-among-alsa-timer-accesses.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-avoid-freeing-umidi-object-twice.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-leftover-link-at-closing.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-rawmidi-fix-race-at-copying-updating-the-position.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-pcm-fix-potential-deadlock-in-oss-emulation.patch
queue-3.10/alsa-timer-fix-link-corruption-due-to-double-start-or-stop.patch