[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Feb 25 18:34:31 UTC 2016


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

    ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads

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 d2fe56f9b3f8bace0b645d6c6634eba854b6b7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:26:58 +0100
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix race at concurrent reads

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 at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/timer.c | 34 +++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index a5a758404943..442e27968925 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1928,6 +1928,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 {
 	struct snd_timer_user *tu;
 	long result = 0, unit;
+	int qhead;
 	int err = 0;

 	tu = file->private_data;
@@ -1939,7 +1940,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,

 			if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) != 0 || result > 0) {
 				err = -EAGAIN;
-				break;
+				goto _error;
 			}

 			set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
@@ -1954,42 +1955,37 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,

 			if (tu->disconnected) {
 				err = -ENODEV;
-				break;
+				goto _error;
 			}
 			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;
 }





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