linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 084/136] ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling

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Date:	Tue,  2 Feb 2016 10:14:39 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 084/136] ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling

3.13.11-ckt34 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

commit b5a663aa426f4884c71cd8580adae73f33570f0d upstream.

A slave timer instance might be still accessible in a racy way while
operating the master instance as it lacks of locking.  Since the
master operation is mostly protected with timer->lock, we should cope
with it while changing the slave instance, too.  Also, some linked
lists (active_list and ack_list) of slave instances aren't unlinked
immediately at stopping or closing, and this may lead to unexpected
accesses.

This patch tries to address these issues.  It adds spin lock of
timer->lock (either from master or slave, which is equivalent) in a
few places.  For avoiding a deadlock, we ensure that the global
slave_active_lock is always locked at first before each timer lock.

Also, ack and active_list of slave instances are properly unlinked at
snd_timer_stop() and snd_timer_close().

Last but not least, remove the superfluous call of _snd_timer_stop()
at removing slave links.  This is a noop, and calling it may confuse
readers wrt locking.  Further cleanup will follow in a later patch.

Actually we've got reports of use-after-free by syzkaller fuzzer, and
this hopefully fixes these issues.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 sound/core/timer.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index bc405a3..4e436fe 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -215,11 +215,13 @@ static void snd_timer_check_master(struct snd_timer_instance *master)
 		    slave->slave_id == master->slave_id) {
 			list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &master->slave_list_head);
 			spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
+			spin_lock(&master->timer->lock);
 			slave->master = master;
 			slave->timer = master->timer;
 			if (slave->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING)
 				list_add_tail(&slave->active_list,
 					      &master->slave_active_head);
+			spin_unlock(&master->timer->lock);
 			spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
 		}
 	}
@@ -345,15 +347,18 @@ int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 		    timer->hw.close)
 			timer->hw.close(timer);
 		/* remove slave links */
+		spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
+		spin_lock(&timer->lock);
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(slave, tmp, &timeri->slave_list_head,
 					 open_list) {
-			spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
-			_snd_timer_stop(slave, 1, SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION);
 			list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &snd_timer_slave_list);
 			slave->master = NULL;
 			slave->timer = NULL;
-			spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
+			list_del_init(&slave->ack_list);
+			list_del_init(&slave->active_list);
 		}
+		spin_unlock(&timer->lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock);
 		mutex_unlock(&register_mutex);
 	}
  out:
@@ -440,9 +445,12 @@ static int snd_timer_start_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&slave_active_lock, flags);
 	timeri->flags |= SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING;
-	if (timeri->master)
+	if (timeri->master && timeri->timer) {
+		spin_lock(&timeri->timer->lock);
 		list_add_tail(&timeri->active_list,
 			      &timeri->master->slave_active_head);
+		spin_unlock(&timeri->timer->lock);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags);
 	return 1; /* delayed start */
 }
@@ -488,6 +496,8 @@ static int _snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance * timeri,
 		if (!keep_flag) {
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&slave_active_lock, flags);
 			timeri->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING;
+			list_del_init(&timeri->ack_list);
+			list_del_init(&timeri->active_list);
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags);
 		}
 		goto __end;
-- 
1.9.1