[alsa-devel] sound: use-after-free in snd_timer_interrupt

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:54:10 +0100,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> OK, then this might be a possible race at the current snd_timer_stop()
> implementation.  There is no sync action there, so the ISR might be
> still alive after snd_timer_close() call.  Or might be another race.
> This pattern looks a bit different, as it's involved with hrtimer.
> 
> I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

I've audited the code today, but the open window doesn't look like
what I expected.  I found only some possible cases with slave timer
instances.

In anyway, below is a test fix patch.  Since I couldn't reproduce the
issue on my local machines, it's hard to say whether this covers the
holes you fell.  Let's see...


thanks,

Takashi

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: timer: Harden slave timer list handling

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 at google.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at 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(&register_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;
-- 
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