A slave timer instance might be still accessible in a racy way while operating the master instance as it lacks of locking. Since the master operation is mostly protected with timer->lock, we should cope with it while changing the slave instance, too. Also, some linked lists (active_list and ack_list) of slave instances aren't unlinked immediately at stopping or closing, and this may lead to unexpected accesses.
This patch tries to address these issues. It adds spin lock of timer->lock (either from master or slave, which is equivalent) in a few places. For avoiding a deadlock, we ensure that the global slave_active_lock is always locked at first before each timer lock.
Also, ack and active_list of slave instances are properly unlinked at snd_timer_stop() and snd_timer_close().
Last but not least, remove the superfluous call of _snd_timer_stop() at removing slave links. This is a noop, and calling it may confuse readers wrt locking. Further cleanup will follow in a later patch.
Actually we've got reports of use-after-free by syzkaller fuzzer, and this hopefully fixes these issues.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- sound/core/timer.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c index 3810ee8f1205..4e8d7bfffff6 100644 --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -215,11 +215,13 @@ static void snd_timer_check_master(struct snd_timer_instance *master) slave->slave_id == master->slave_id) { list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &master->slave_list_head); spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock); + spin_lock(&master->timer->lock); slave->master = master; slave->timer = master->timer; if (slave->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING) list_add_tail(&slave->active_list, &master->slave_active_head); + spin_unlock(&master->timer->lock); spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock); } } @@ -346,15 +348,18 @@ int snd_timer_close(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri) timer->hw.close) timer->hw.close(timer); /* remove slave links */ + spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock); + spin_lock(&timer->lock); list_for_each_entry_safe(slave, tmp, &timeri->slave_list_head, open_list) { - spin_lock_irq(&slave_active_lock); - _snd_timer_stop(slave, 1, SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION); list_move_tail(&slave->open_list, &snd_timer_slave_list); slave->master = NULL; slave->timer = NULL; - spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock); + list_del_init(&slave->ack_list); + list_del_init(&slave->active_list); } + spin_unlock(&timer->lock); + spin_unlock_irq(&slave_active_lock); mutex_unlock(®ister_mutex); } out: @@ -441,9 +446,12 @@ static int snd_timer_start_slave(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri)
spin_lock_irqsave(&slave_active_lock, flags); timeri->flags |= SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING; - if (timeri->master) + if (timeri->master && timeri->timer) { + spin_lock(&timeri->timer->lock); list_add_tail(&timeri->active_list, &timeri->master->slave_active_head); + spin_unlock(&timeri->timer->lock); + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags); return 1; /* delayed start */ } @@ -489,6 +497,8 @@ static int _snd_timer_stop(struct snd_timer_instance * timeri, if (!keep_flag) { spin_lock_irqsave(&slave_active_lock, flags); timeri->flags &= ~SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_RUNNING; + list_del_init(&timeri->ack_list); + list_del_init(&timeri->active_list); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slave_active_lock, flags); } goto __end;