From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Bo Cao <treebacker@foxmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] ALSA: pcm: Prevent O_APPEND open on OSS streams
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:11:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261113011054.553203-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261113011054.553203-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
[ Upstream commit 9017bc3d13da0ea4e63be618c87143a7b69185e6 ]
ALSA PCM core accepts to re-use the existing stream when O_APPEND is
passed, and it's been used for dmix, etc. However, this mode isn't
supposed to be used for OSS: the OSS stream allows re-configuration
via its hw_params/hw_refine procedure even while it's being mmapped,
so it implies the usage of only a single stream. Because of this
assumption, the sanity check is skipped for OSS streams, and if user
may attach to an existing OSS stream with O_APPEND, it may result in a
UAF of the mapped pages which could be used as a privilege escalation
exploit.
For addressing it, this patch simply prohibits the O_APPEND behavior
on the OSS stream. O_APPEND is never used for OSS layer itself, so
this can't break for the right applications.
Fixes: 0df63e44c3e3 ("[ALSA] Add O_APPEND flag support to PCM")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Bo Cao <treebacker@foxmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_E90BB4F086165FAA3313723567A5C675EA06@qq.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261103155844.120838-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
sound/core/pcm.c | 2 ++
sound/core/pcm_local.h | 6 ++++++
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 6 ------
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm.c b/sound/core/pcm.c
index ff1e9f8c1ecae..18979f88f7159 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm.c
@@ -923,6 +923,8 @@ int snd_pcm_attach_substream(struct snd_pcm *pcm, int stream,
return -ENODEV;
if (! SUBSTREAM_BUSY(substream))
return -EBADFD;
+ if (is_oss_stream(substream))
+ return -EINVAL;
substream->ref_count++;
*rsubstream = substream;
return 0;
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_local.h b/sound/core/pcm_local.h
index ecb21697ae3a4..4b134d435c24f 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_local.h
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_local.h
@@ -80,4 +80,10 @@ static inline void snd_pcm_dma_buffer_sync(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
snd_dma_buffer_sync(snd_pcm_get_dma_buf(substream), mode);
}
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS)
+#define is_oss_stream(substream) ((substream)->oss.oss)
+#else
+#define is_oss_stream(substream) false
+#endif
+
#endif /* __SOUND_CORE_PCM_LOCAL_H */
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
index f3b17ec2f1778..24b923aabc9a2 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -745,12 +745,6 @@ int snd_pcm_runtime_buffer_set_silence(struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_pcm_runtime_buffer_set_silence);
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS)
-#define is_oss_stream(substream) ((substream)->oss.oss)
-#else
-#define is_oss_stream(substream) false
-#endif
-
static void pcm_qos_req_clear(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
{
if (cpu_latency_qos_request_active(&substream->latency_pm_qos_req))
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-10 1:10 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Prevent O_APPEND open on OSS streams" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-13 1:11 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/2] ALSA: pcm: Optimize cpu_latency_qos_*() calls Sasha Levin
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