3.2.91-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit d11662f4f798b50d8c8743f433842c3e40fe3378 upstream. The read from ALSA timer device, the function snd_timer_user_tread(), may access to an uninitialized struct snd_timer_user fields when the read is concurrently performed while the ioctl like snd_timer_user_tselect() is invoked. We have already fixed the races among ioctls via a mutex, but we seem to have forgotten the race between read vs ioctl. This patch simply applies (more exactly extends the already applied range of) tu->ioctl_lock in snd_timer_user_tread() for closing the race window. Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/timer.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/timer.c +++ b/sound/core/timer.c @@ -1930,6 +1930,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc tu = file->private_data; unit = tu->tread ? sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread) : sizeof(struct snd_timer_read); + mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock); spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock); while ((long)count - result >= unit) { while (!tu->qused) { @@ -1945,7 +1946,9 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc add_wait_queue(&tu->qchange_sleep, &wait); spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); + mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock); schedule(); + mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock); spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock); remove_wait_queue(&tu->qchange_sleep, &wait); @@ -1961,7 +1964,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc tu->qused--; spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); - mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock); if (tu->tread) { if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[qhead], sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread))) @@ -1971,7 +1973,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc sizeof(struct snd_timer_read))) err = -EFAULT; } - mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock); spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock); if (err < 0) @@ -1981,6 +1982,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struc } _error: spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); + mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock); return result > 0 ? result : err; }