[PATCH 4.20 59/80] ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of OSS capture stream

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-04T10:55:18Z

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit e190161f96b88ffae870405fd6c3fdd1d2e7f98d upstream.

When the trigger=off is passed for a PCM OSS stream, it sets the
start_threshold of the given substream to the boundary size, so that
it won't be automatically started. This can be problematic for a
capture stream, unfortunately, as detected by syzkaller. The scenario
is like the following:

- In __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() that is invoked from snd_pcm_oss_read()
loop, we have a check whether the stream was already started or the
stream can be auto-started.
- The function at this check returns 0 with trigger=off since we
explicitly disable the auto-start.
- The loop continues and repeats calling __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() tightly,
which may lead to an RCU stall.

This patch fixes the bug by simply allowing the wait for non-started
stream in the case of OSS capture. For native usages, it's supposed
to be done by the caller side (which is user-space), hence it returns
zero like before.

(In theory, __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() could wait even for the native API
usage cases, too; but I'd like to stay in a safer side for not
breaking the existing stuff for now.)

Reported-by: syzbot+fbe0496f92a0ce7b786c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2112,6 +2112,13 @@ int pcm_lib_apply_appl_ptr(struct snd_pc
return 0;
}

+/* allow waiting for a capture stream that hasn't been started */
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS)
+#define wait_capture_start(substream) ((substream)->oss.oss)
+#else
+#define wait_capture_start(substream) false
+#endif
+
/* the common loop for read/write data */
snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
void *data, bool interleaved,
@@ -2182,7 +2189,7 @@ snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(str
err = snd_pcm_start(substream);
if (err < 0)
goto _end_unlock;
- } else {
+ } else if (!wait_capture_start(substream)) {
/* nothing to do */
err = 0;
goto _end_unlock;