[PATCH 5.10 003/103] ALSA: seq: Fix a potential UAF by wrong private_free call order

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-18T13:39:07Z

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 1f8763c59c4ec6254d629fe77c0a52220bd907aa upstream.

John Keeping reported and posted a patch for a potential UAF in
rawmidi sequencer destruction: the snd_rawmidi_dev_seq_free() may be
called after the associated rawmidi object got already freed.
After a deeper look, it turned out that the bug is rather the
incorrect private_free call order for a snd_seq_device. The
snd_seq_device private_free gets called at the release callback of the
sequencer device object, while this was rather expected to be executed
at the snd_device call chains that runs at the beginning of the whole
card-free procedure. It's been broken since the rewrite of
sequencer-device binding (although it hasn't surfaced because the
sequencer device release happens usually right along with the card
device release).

This patch corrects the private_free call to be done in the right
place, at snd_seq_device_dev_free().

Fixes: 7c37ae5c625a ("ALSA: seq: Rewrite sequencer device binding with standard bus")
Reported-and-tested-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210930114114.8645-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
sound/core/seq_device.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/seq_device.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq_device.c
@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ static int snd_seq_device_dev_free(struc
struct snd_seq_device *dev = device->device_data;

cancel_autoload_drivers();
+ if (dev->private_free)
+ dev->private_free(dev);
put_device(&dev->dev);
return 0;
}
@@ -174,11 +176,7 @@ static int snd_seq_device_dev_disconnect

static void snd_seq_dev_release(struct device *dev)
{
- struct snd_seq_device *sdev = to_seq_dev(dev);
-
- if (sdev->private_free)
- sdev->private_free(sdev);
- kfree(sdev);
+ kfree(to_seq_dev(dev));
}

/*