[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt14.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 10c6e6237344c5ed9828149fa35b2b697259e0e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:48:01 +0100
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix race among timer ioctls

commit af368027a49a751d6ff4ee9e3f9961f35bb4fede upstream.

ALSA timer ioctls have an open race and this may lead to a
use-after-free of timer instance object.  A simplistic fix is to make
each ioctl exclusive.  We have already tread_sem for controlling the
tread, and extend this as a global mutex to be applied to each ioctl.

The downside is, of course, the worse concurrency.  But these ioctls
aren't to be parallel accessible, in anyway, so it should be fine to
serialize there.

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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/timer.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index 222c549..79fd8a1 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ struct snd_timer_user {
 	struct timespec tstamp;		/* trigger tstamp */
 	wait_queue_head_t qchange_sleep;
 	struct fasync_struct *fasync;
-	struct mutex tread_sem;
+	struct mutex ioctl_lock;
 };

 /* list of timers */
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ static int snd_timer_user_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	spin_lock_init(&tu->qlock);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&tu->qchange_sleep);
-	mutex_init(&tu->tread_sem);
+	mutex_init(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 	tu->ticks = 1;
 	tu->queue_size = 128;
 	tu->queue = kmalloc(tu->queue_size * sizeof(struct snd_timer_read),
@@ -1277,8 +1277,10 @@ static int snd_timer_user_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	if (file->private_data) {
 		tu = file->private_data;
 		file->private_data = NULL;
+		mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 		if (tu->timeri)
 			snd_timer_close(tu->timeri);
+		mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 		kfree(tu->queue);
 		kfree(tu->tqueue);
 		kfree(tu);
@@ -1516,7 +1518,6 @@ static int snd_timer_user_tselect(struct file *file,
 	int err = 0;

 	tu = file->private_data;
-	mutex_lock(&tu->tread_sem);
 	if (tu->timeri) {
 		snd_timer_close(tu->timeri);
 		tu->timeri = NULL;
@@ -1560,7 +1561,6 @@ static int snd_timer_user_tselect(struct file *file,
 	}

       __err:
-      	mutex_unlock(&tu->tread_sem);
 	return err;
 }

@@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ enum {
 	SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PAUSE_OLD = _IO('T', 0x23),
 };

-static long snd_timer_user_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
+static long __snd_timer_user_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 				 unsigned long arg)
 {
 	struct snd_timer_user *tu;
@@ -1790,17 +1790,11 @@ static long snd_timer_user_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 	{
 		int xarg;

-		mutex_lock(&tu->tread_sem);
-		if (tu->timeri)	{	/* too late */
-			mutex_unlock(&tu->tread_sem);
+		if (tu->timeri)	/* too late */
 			return -EBUSY;
-		}
-		if (get_user(xarg, p)) {
-			mutex_unlock(&tu->tread_sem);
+		if (get_user(xarg, p))
 			return -EFAULT;
-		}
 		tu->tread = xarg ? 1 : 0;
-		mutex_unlock(&tu->tread_sem);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	case SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_GINFO:
@@ -1833,6 +1827,18 @@ static long snd_timer_user_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 	return -ENOTTY;
 }

+static long snd_timer_user_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
+				 unsigned long arg)
+{
+	struct snd_timer_user *tu = file->private_data;
+	long ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
+	ret = __snd_timer_user_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
+	mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int snd_timer_user_fasync(int fd, struct file * file, int on)
 {
 	struct snd_timer_user *tu;
--
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