On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:15:49 +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > > > Hm, this looks like the issue triggered by concurrent writes to the > > same client. Does the patch fix the problem? > > Yes, it fixes the leak for me. > > Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the quick test. FWIW, below is the final patch I'm going to merge. Takashi -- 8< -- From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: seq: Fix leak of pool buffer at concurrent writes When multiple concurrent writes happen on the ALSA sequencer device right after the open, it may try to allocate vmalloc buffer for each write and leak some of them. It's because the presence check and the assignment of the buffer is done outside the spinlock for the pool. The fix is to move the check and the assignment into the spinlock. (The current implementation is suboptimal, as there can be multiple unnecessary vmallocs because the allocation is done before the check in the spinlock. But the pool size is already checked beforehand, so this isn't a big problem; that is, the only possible path is the multiple writes before any pool assignment, and practically seen, the current coverage should be "good enough".) The issue was triggered by syzkaller fuzzer. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bSzazpXNvtAr=WXaL8hptqjHwqEyFA+VN2AWEx=aurkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> --- sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c index 801076687bb1..c850345c43b5 100644 --- a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c +++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c @@ -383,15 +383,20 @@ int snd_seq_pool_init(struct snd_seq_pool *pool) if (snd_BUG_ON(!pool)) return -EINVAL; - if (pool->ptr) /* should be atomic? */ - return 0; - pool->ptr = vmalloc(sizeof(struct snd_seq_event_cell) * pool->size); - if (!pool->ptr) + cellptr = vmalloc(sizeof(struct snd_seq_event_cell) * pool->size); + if (!cellptr) return -ENOMEM; /* add new cells to the free cell list */ spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags); + if (pool->ptr) { + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); + vfree(cellptr); + return 0; + } + + pool->ptr = cellptr; pool->free = NULL; for (cell = 0; cell < pool->size; cell++) { -- 2.7.1 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel