[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: seq: Fix race at closing in virmidi driver" 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 closing in virmidi driver

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-ckt25.

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: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:06:42 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Fix race at closing in virmidi driver

commit 2d1b5c08366acd46c35a2e9aba5d650cb5bf5c19 upstream.

The virmidi driver has an open race at closing its assigned rawmidi
device, and this may lead to use-after-free in
snd_seq_deliver_single_event().

Plug the hole by properly protecting the linked list deletion and
calling in the right order in snd_virmidi_input_close().

BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Zd66+w12fNN85-425cVQT=K23kWbhnCEcMB8s3us-Frw@mail.gmail.com
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_virmidi.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c
index 56e0f4cd3f82..f2975927551e 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c
@@ -254,9 +254,13 @@ static int snd_virmidi_output_open(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream)
  */
 static int snd_virmidi_input_close(struct snd_rawmidi_substream *substream)
 {
+	struct snd_virmidi_dev *rdev = substream->rmidi->private_data;
 	struct snd_virmidi *vmidi = substream->runtime->private_data;
-	snd_midi_event_free(vmidi->parser);
+
+	write_lock_irq(&rdev->filelist_lock);
 	list_del(&vmidi->list);
+	write_unlock_irq(&rdev->filelist_lock);
+	snd_midi_event_free(vmidi->parser);
 	substream->runtime->private_data = NULL;
 	kfree(vmidi);
 	return 0;