[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

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

    ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:36:27 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close

commit 3567eb6af614dac436c4b16a8d426f9faed639b3 upstream.

ALSA sequencer code has an open race between the timer setup ioctl and
the close of the client.  This was triggered by syzkaller fuzzer, and
a use-after-free was caught there as a result.

This patch papers over it by adding a proper queue->timer_mutex lock
around the timer-related calls in the relevant code path.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c
index aad4878cee55..52defd86d8b4 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c
@@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ static struct snd_seq_queue *queue_new(int owner, int locked)
 static void queue_delete(struct snd_seq_queue *q)
 {
 	/* stop and release the timer */
+	mutex_lock(&q->timer_mutex);
 	snd_seq_timer_stop(q->timer);
 	snd_seq_timer_close(q);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->timer_mutex);
 	/* wait until access free */
 	snd_use_lock_sync(&q->use_lock);
 	/* release resources... */