linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] ALSA: ice1712: a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in snd_vt1724_set_pro

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:24:39 +0100
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Cc:     perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, allison@...utok.net,
        rfontana@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ALSA: ice1712: a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in snd_vt1724_set_pro_rate()

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:25:42 +0100,
Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> 
> The driver may sleep while holding a read lock.
> The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:
> 
> sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c, 414:
>     mutex_lock in reg_write
> sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c, 485:
>     reg_write in set_cpld
> sound/pci/ice1712/quartet.c, 876:
>     set_cpld in qtet_set_rate
> sound/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c, 687:
>     (FUNC_PTR) qtet_set_rate in snd_vt1724_set_pro_rate
> sound/pci/ice1712/ice1724.c, 668:
>     _raw_spin_lock_irqsave in snd_vt1724_set_pro_rate
> 
> (FUNC_PTR) means a function pointer is called.
> mutex_lock() can sleep at runtime.
> 
> I am not sure how to properly fix this possible bug, so I only report it.
> 
> This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by myself.

Thanks for the report.  I'll submitted the fix.


Takashi