[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "ALSA: control: Protect user controls against concurrent access" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: control: Protect user controls against concurrent access

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 61710313d299daf0b3f27b5a0928bbb0c0e76409 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:32:31 +0200
Subject: ALSA: control: Protect user controls against concurrent access

commit 07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92 upstream.

The user-control put and get handlers as well as the tlv do not protect against
concurrent access from multiple threads. Since the state of the control is not
updated atomically it is possible that either two write operations or a write
and a read operation race against each other. Both can lead to arbitrary memory
disclosure. This patch introduces a new lock that protects user-controls from
concurrent access. Since applications typically access controls sequentially
than in parallel a single lock per card should be fine.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
Acked-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/sound/core.h |  2 ++
 sound/core/control.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 sound/core/init.c    |  1 +
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sound/core.h b/include/sound/core.h
index 93896ad..8d29d28 100644
--- a/include/sound/core.h
+++ b/include/sound/core.h
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ struct snd_card {
 	int user_ctl_count;		/* count of all user controls */
 	struct list_head controls;	/* all controls for this card */
 	struct list_head ctl_files;	/* active control files */
+	struct mutex user_ctl_lock;	/* protects user controls against
+					   concurrent access */

 	struct snd_info_entry *proc_root;	/* root for soundcard specific files */
 	struct snd_info_entry *proc_id;	/* the card id */
diff --git a/sound/core/control.c b/sound/core/control.c
index 8c7c2c9..c254cab 100644
--- a/sound/core/control.c
+++ b/sound/core/control.c
@@ -989,6 +989,7 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_unlock(struct snd_ctl_file *file,

 struct user_element {
 	struct snd_ctl_elem_info info;
+	struct snd_card *card;
 	void *elem_data;		/* element data */
 	unsigned long elem_data_size;	/* size of element data in bytes */
 	void *tlv_data;			/* TLV data */
@@ -1032,7 +1033,9 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_user_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
 {
 	struct user_element *ue = kcontrol->private_data;

+	mutex_lock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 	memcpy(&ucontrol->value, ue->elem_data, ue->elem_data_size);
+	mutex_unlock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 	return 0;
 }

@@ -1041,10 +1044,12 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_user_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
 {
 	int change;
 	struct user_element *ue = kcontrol->private_data;
-
+
+	mutex_lock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 	change = memcmp(&ucontrol->value, ue->elem_data, ue->elem_data_size) != 0;
 	if (change)
 		memcpy(ue->elem_data, &ucontrol->value, ue->elem_data_size);
+	mutex_unlock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 	return change;
 }

@@ -1064,19 +1069,32 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_user_tlv(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
 		new_data = memdup_user(tlv, size);
 		if (IS_ERR(new_data))
 			return PTR_ERR(new_data);
+		mutex_lock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 		change = ue->tlv_data_size != size;
 		if (!change)
 			change = memcmp(ue->tlv_data, new_data, size);
 		kfree(ue->tlv_data);
 		ue->tlv_data = new_data;
 		ue->tlv_data_size = size;
+		mutex_unlock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 	} else {
-		if (! ue->tlv_data_size || ! ue->tlv_data)
-			return -ENXIO;
-		if (size < ue->tlv_data_size)
-			return -ENOSPC;
+		int ret = 0;
+
+		mutex_lock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
+		if (!ue->tlv_data_size || !ue->tlv_data) {
+			ret = -ENXIO;
+			goto err_unlock;
+		}
+		if (size < ue->tlv_data_size) {
+			ret = -ENOSPC;
+			goto err_unlock;
+		}
 		if (copy_to_user(tlv, ue->tlv_data, ue->tlv_data_size))
-			return -EFAULT;
+			ret = -EFAULT;
+err_unlock:
+		mutex_unlock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
 	}
 	return change;
 }
@@ -1208,6 +1226,7 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_add(struct snd_ctl_file *file,
 	ue = kzalloc(sizeof(struct user_element) + private_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ue == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	ue->card = card;
 	ue->info = *info;
 	ue->info.access = 0;
 	ue->elem_data = (char *)ue + sizeof(*ue);
diff --git a/sound/core/init.c b/sound/core/init.c
index 7b012d1..41020d7 100644
--- a/sound/core/init.c
+++ b/sound/core/init.c
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ int snd_card_create(int idx, const char *xid,
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&card->devices);
 	init_rwsem(&card->controls_rwsem);
 	rwlock_init(&card->ctl_files_rwlock);
+	mutex_init(&card->user_ctl_lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&card->controls);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&card->ctl_files);
 	spin_lock_init(&card->files_lock);
--
1.9.1