linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 57/67] ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads

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Message-ID: <lsq.1456263723.654953452@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:42:03 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 57/67] ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads

3.2.78-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

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

commit 4dff5c7b7093b19c19d3a100f8a3ad87cb7cd9e7 upstream.

snd_timer_user_read() has a potential race among parallel reads, as
qhead and qused are updated outside the critical section due to
copy_to_user() calls.  Move them into the critical section, and also
sanitize the relevant code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: there's no check for tu->connected to fix up]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1890,6 +1890,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc
 {
 	struct snd_timer_user *tu;
 	long result = 0, unit;
+	int qhead;
 	int err = 0;
 
 	tu = file->private_data;
@@ -1901,7 +1902,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc
 
 			if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) != 0 || result > 0) {
 				err = -EAGAIN;
-				break;
+				goto _error;
 			}
 
 			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
@@ -1916,38 +1917,33 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc
 
 			if (signal_pending(current)) {
 				err = -ERESTARTSYS;
-				break;
+				goto _error;
 			}
 		}
 
+		qhead = tu->qhead++;
+		tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
-		if (err < 0)
-			goto _error;
 
 		if (tu->tread) {
-			if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[tu->qhead++],
-					 sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread))) {
+			if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[qhead],
+					 sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread)))
 				err = -EFAULT;
-				goto _error;
-			}
 		} else {
-			if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->queue[tu->qhead++],
-					 sizeof(struct snd_timer_read))) {
+			if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->queue[qhead],
+					 sizeof(struct snd_timer_read)))
 				err = -EFAULT;
-				goto _error;
-			}
 		}
 
-		tu->qhead %= tu->queue_size;
-
-		result += unit;
-		buffer += unit;
-
 		spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 		tu->qused--;
+		if (err < 0)
+			goto _error;
+		result += unit;
+		buffer += unit;
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
  _error:
+	spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 	return result > 0 ? result : err;
 }