[PATCH] ALSA: seq: Fix a potential UAF by wrong private_free call order

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Thu Sep 30 13:41:14 CEST 2021


John Keeping reported and posted a patch for a potential UAF in
rawmidi sequencer destruction: the snd_rawmidi_dev_seq_free() may be
called after the associated rawmidi object got already freed.
After a deeper look, it turned out that the bug is rather the
incorrect private_free call order for a snd_seq_device.  The
snd_seq_device private_free gets called at the release callback of the
sequencer device object, while this was rather expected to be executed
at the snd_device call chains that runs at the beginning of the whole
card-free procedure.  It's been broken since the rewrite of
sequencer-device binding (although it hasn't surfaced because the
sequencer device release happens usually right along with the card
device release).

This patch corrects the private_free call to be done in the right
place, at snd_seq_device_dev_free().

Fixes: 7c37ae5c625a ("ALSA: seq: Rewrite sequencer device binding with standard bus")
Reported-and-tested-by: John Keeping <john at metanate.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/core/seq_device.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/seq_device.c b/sound/core/seq_device.c
index 382275c5b193..7f3fd8eb016f 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq_device.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq_device.c
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ static int snd_seq_device_dev_free(struct snd_device *device)
 	struct snd_seq_device *dev = device->device_data;
 
 	cancel_autoload_drivers();
+	if (dev->private_free)
+		dev->private_free(dev);
 	put_device(&dev->dev);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -183,11 +185,7 @@ static int snd_seq_device_dev_disconnect(struct snd_device *device)
 
 static void snd_seq_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 {
-	struct snd_seq_device *sdev = to_seq_dev(dev);
-
-	if (sdev->private_free)
-		sdev->private_free(sdev);
-	kfree(sdev);
+	kfree(to_seq_dev(dev));
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.26.2



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