Patch "ALSA: seq: Fix racy cell insertions during snd_seq_pool_done()" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ALSA: seq: Fix racy cell insertions during snd_seq_pool_done()

to the 3.18-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-racy-cell-insertions-during-snd_seq_pool_done.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 c520ff3d03f0b5db7146d9beed6373ad5d2a5e0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:56:04 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Fix racy cell insertions during snd_seq_pool_done()

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit c520ff3d03f0b5db7146d9beed6373ad5d2a5e0e upstream.

When snd_seq_pool_done() is called, it marks the closing flag to
refuse the further cell insertions.  But snd_seq_pool_done() itself
doesn't clear the cells but just waits until all cells are cleared by
the caller side.  That is, it's racy, and this leads to the endless
stall as syzkaller spotted.

This patch addresses the racy by splitting the setup of pool->closing
flag out of snd_seq_pool_done(), and calling it properly before
snd_seq_pool_done().

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+aqqy8bZA1fFieifNxR2fAfFQQABcBHj801+u5ePV0URw@mail.gmail.com
Reported-and-tested-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_clientmgr.c |    1 +
 sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c      |    3 +++
 sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c    |   17 +++++++++++++----
 sound/core/seq/seq_memory.h    |    1 +
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c
@@ -1921,6 +1921,7 @@ static int snd_seq_ioctl_set_client_pool
 	     info.output_pool != client->pool->size)) {
 		if (snd_seq_write_pool_allocated(client)) {
 			/* remove all existing cells */
+			snd_seq_pool_mark_closing(client->pool);
 			snd_seq_queue_client_leave_cells(client->number);
 			snd_seq_pool_done(client->pool);
 		}
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_fifo.c
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ void snd_seq_fifo_delete(struct snd_seq_
 		return;
 	*fifo = NULL;
 
+	if (f->pool)
+		snd_seq_pool_mark_closing(f->pool);
+
 	snd_seq_fifo_clear(f);
 
 	/* wake up clients if any */
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c
@@ -414,6 +414,18 @@ int snd_seq_pool_init(struct snd_seq_poo
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* refuse the further insertion to the pool */
+void snd_seq_pool_mark_closing(struct snd_seq_pool *pool)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (snd_BUG_ON(!pool))
+		return;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
+	pool->closing = 1;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+}
+
 /* remove events */
 int snd_seq_pool_done(struct snd_seq_pool *pool)
 {
@@ -425,10 +437,6 @@ int snd_seq_pool_done(struct snd_seq_poo
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* wait for closing all threads */
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
-	pool->closing = 1;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
-
 	if (waitqueue_active(&pool->output_sleep))
 		wake_up(&pool->output_sleep);
 
@@ -491,6 +499,7 @@ int snd_seq_pool_delete(struct snd_seq_p
 	*ppool = NULL;
 	if (pool == NULL)
 		return 0;
+	snd_seq_pool_mark_closing(pool);
 	snd_seq_pool_done(pool);
 	kfree(pool);
 	return 0;
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.h
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ static inline int snd_seq_total_cells(st
 int snd_seq_pool_init(struct snd_seq_pool *pool);
 
 /* done pool - free events */
+void snd_seq_pool_mark_closing(struct snd_seq_pool *pool);
 int snd_seq_pool_done(struct snd_seq_pool *pool);
 
 /* create pool */


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

queue-3.18/alsa-seq-fix-race-during-fifo-resize.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-seq-fix-racy-cell-insertions-during-snd_seq_pool_done.patch