3.16.55-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Robb Glasser <rglasser@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 362bca57f5d78220f8b5907b875961af9436e229 upstream. When the device descriptor is closed, the `substream->runtime` pointer is freed. But another thread may be in the ioctl handler, case SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_PCM_INFO. This case calls snd_pcm_info_user() which calls snd_pcm_info() which accesses the now freed `substream->runtime`. Note: this fixes CVE-2017-0861 Signed-off-by: Robb Glasser <rglasser@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/pcm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/sound/core/pcm.c +++ b/sound/core/pcm.c @@ -150,7 +150,9 @@ static int snd_pcm_control_ioctl(struct err = -ENXIO; goto _error; } + mutex_lock(&pcm->open_mutex); err = snd_pcm_info_user(substream, info); + mutex_unlock(&pcm->open_mutex); _error: mutex_unlock(®ister_mutex); return err;