[PATCH 1/2] ALSA: pcm: disallow linking stream to itself

Michał Mirosław mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl
Mon Jun 8 12:06:32 CEST 2020


Prevent SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_LINK linking stream to itself - the code
can't handle it. Fixed commit is not where bug was introduced, but
changes the context significantly.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0888c321de70 ("pcm_native: switch to fdget()/fdput()")
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux at rere.qmqm.pl>
---
 sound/core/pcm_native.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
index aef860256278..3ad399cb6f30 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -2166,6 +2166,12 @@ static int snd_pcm_link(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int fd)
 	}
 	pcm_file = f.file->private_data;
 	substream1 = pcm_file->substream;
+
+	if (substream == substream1) {
+		res = -EDEADLK;
+		goto _badf;
+	}
+
 	group = kzalloc(sizeof(*group), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!group) {
 		res = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.20.1



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