From a0e3501f63314e7c6212820ae1e5c3f1f8eae733 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:41:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: rawmidi: Fix race at copying & updating the position commit 81f577542af15640cbcb6ef68baa4caa610cbbfc upstream. The rawmidi read and write functions manage runtime stream status such as runtime->appl_ptr and runtime->avail. These point where to copy the new data and how many bytes have been copied (or to be read). The problem is that rawmidi read/write call copy_from_user() or copy_to_user(), and the runtime spinlock is temporarily unlocked and relocked while copying user-space. Since the current code advances and updates the runtime status after the spin unlock/relock, the copy and the update may be asynchronous, and eventually runtime->avail might go to a negative value when many concurrent accesses are done. This may lead to memory corruption in the end. For fixing this race, in this patch, the status update code is performed in the same lock before the temporary unlock. Also, the spinlock is now taken more widely in snd_rawmidi_kernel_read1() for protecting more properly during the whole operation. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+b-dCmNf1GpgPKfDO0ih+uZCL2JV4__j-r1kdhPLSgQCQ@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed