[PATCH] ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix race at SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Sep 5 08:07:14 CEST 2022


There is a small race window at snd_pcm_oss_sync() that is called from
OSS PCM SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl; namely the function calls
snd_pcm_oss_make_ready() at first, then takes the params_lock mutex
for the rest.  When the stream is set up again by another thread
between them, it leads to inconsistency, and may result in unexpected
results such as NULL dereference of OSS buffer as a fuzzer spotted
recently.

The fix is simply to cover snd_pcm_oss_make_ready() call into the same
params_lock mutex with snd_pcm_oss_make_ready_locked() variant.

Reported-and-tested-by: butt3rflyh4ck <butterflyhuangxx at gmail.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAFcO6XN7JDM4xSXGhtusQfS2mSBcx50VJKwQpCq=WeLt57aaZA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
index 90c3a367d7de..02df915eb3c6 100644
--- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
@@ -1672,14 +1672,14 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_sync(struct snd_pcm_oss_file *pcm_oss_file)
 		runtime = substream->runtime;
 		if (atomic_read(&substream->mmap_count))
 			goto __direct;
-		err = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready(substream);
-		if (err < 0)
-			return err;
 		atomic_inc(&runtime->oss.rw_ref);
 		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) {
 			atomic_dec(&runtime->oss.rw_ref);
 			return -ERESTARTSYS;
 		}
+		err = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready_locked(substream);
+		if (err < 0)
+			goto unlock;
 		format = snd_pcm_oss_format_from(runtime->oss.format);
 		width = snd_pcm_format_physical_width(format);
 		if (runtime->oss.buffer_used > 0) {
-- 
2.35.3



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