[PATCH] ALSA: seq: Fix race of snd_seq_timer_open()

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Thu Jun 10 17:20:59 CEST 2021


The timer instance per queue is exclusive, and snd_seq_timer_open()
should have managed the concurrent accesses.  It looks as if it's
checking the already existing timer instance at the beginning, but
it's not right, because there is no protection, hence any later
concurrent call of snd_seq_timer_open() may override the timer
instance easily.  This may result in UAF, as the leftover timer
instance can keep running while the queue itself gets closed, as
spotted by syzkaller recently.

For avoiding the race, add a proper check at the assignment of
tmr->timeri again, and return -EBUSY if it's been already registered.

Reported-by: syzbot+ddc1260a83ed1cbf6fb5 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000dce34f05c42f110c@google.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
index 1645e4142e30..9863be6fd43e 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_timer.c
@@ -297,8 +297,16 @@ int snd_seq_timer_open(struct snd_seq_queue *q)
 		return err;
 	}
 	spin_lock_irq(&tmr->lock);
-	tmr->timeri = t;
+	if (tmr->timeri)
+		err = -EBUSY;
+	else
+		tmr->timeri = t;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&tmr->lock);
+	if (err < 0) {
+		snd_timer_close(t);
+		snd_timer_instance_free(t);
+		return err;
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.26.2



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