From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Robb Glasser <rglasser@google.com>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>,
Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 18:26:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171205172656.GA5307@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdmoDtJSsv-t-O4KuJoKCvGcmecBQX4bjh4G1mXP0iDTiA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 09:19:32AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> + stable
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> > From: Robb Glasser <rglasser@google.com>
> >
> > When the device descriptor is closed, the `substream->runtime` pointer
> > is freed. But another thread may be in the ioctl handler, case
> > SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_PCM_INFO. This case calls snd_pcm_info_user() which
> > calls snd_pcm_info() which accesses the now freed `substream->runtime`.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robb Glasser <rglasser@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > ---
> > sound/core/pcm.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-05 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-05 17:16 [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: prevent UAF in snd_pcm_info Nick Desaulniers
2017-12-05 17:16 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-12-05 17:19 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-12-05 17:19 ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-12-05 17:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-12-05 19:14 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-12-05 19:14 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-12-05 19:29 ` Kees Cook
2017-12-05 19:29 ` Kees Cook
2017-12-05 22:30 ` Takashi Iwai
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