Patch "ALSA: aloop: Fix access to not-yet-ready substream via cable" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ALSA: aloop: Fix access to not-yet-ready substream via cable

to the 4.4-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-aloop-fix-access-to-not-yet-ready-substream-via-cable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 8e6b1a72a75bb5067ccb6b56d8ca4aa3a300a64e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:40:27 +0100
Subject: ALSA: aloop: Fix access to not-yet-ready substream via cable

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit 8e6b1a72a75bb5067ccb6b56d8ca4aa3a300a64e upstream.

In loopback_open() and loopback_close(), we assign and release the
substream object to the corresponding cable in a racy way.  It's
neither locked nor done in the right position.  The open callback
assigns the substream before its preparation finishes, hence the other
side of the cable may pick it up, which may lead to the invalid memory
access.

This patch addresses these: move the assignment to the end of the open
callback, and wrap with cable->lock for avoiding concurrent accesses.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/drivers/aloop.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/drivers/aloop.c
+++ b/sound/drivers/aloop.c
@@ -666,7 +666,9 @@ static void free_cable(struct snd_pcm_su
 		return;
 	if (cable->streams[!substream->stream]) {
 		/* other stream is still alive */
+		spin_lock_irq(&cable->lock);
 		cable->streams[substream->stream] = NULL;
+		spin_unlock_irq(&cable->lock);
 	} else {
 		/* free the cable */
 		loopback->cables[substream->number][dev] = NULL;
@@ -706,7 +708,6 @@ static int loopback_open(struct snd_pcm_
 		loopback->cables[substream->number][dev] = cable;
 	}
 	dpcm->cable = cable;
-	cable->streams[substream->stream] = dpcm;
 
 	snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer(runtime, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIODS);
 
@@ -738,6 +739,11 @@ static int loopback_open(struct snd_pcm_
 		runtime->hw = loopback_pcm_hardware;
 	else
 		runtime->hw = cable->hw;
+
+	spin_lock_irq(&cable->lock);
+	cable->streams[substream->stream] = dpcm;
+	spin_unlock_irq(&cable->lock);
+
  unlock:
 	if (err < 0) {
 		free_cable(substream);


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

queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-fix-access-to-not-yet-ready-substream-via-cable.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-realtek-always-immediately-update-mute-led-with-pin-vref.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-usb-audio-fix-parsing-descriptor-of-uac2-processing-unit.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-aloop-sync-stale-timer-before-release.patch