This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ALSA: seq: Don't allow resizing pool in use
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
alsa-seq-don-t-allow-resizing-pool-in-use.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d85739367c6d56e475c281945c68fdb05ca74b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:00:55 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Don't allow resizing pool in use
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
commit d85739367c6d56e475c281945c68fdb05ca74b4c upstream.
This is a fix for a (sort of) fallout in the recent commit
d15d662e89fc ("ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations") for
CVE-2018-1000004.
As the pool resize deletes the existing cells, it may lead to a race
when another thread is writing concurrently, eventually resulting a
UAF.
A simple workaround is not to allow the pool resizing when the pool is
in use. It's an invalid behavior in anyway.
Fixes: d15d662e89fc ("ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations")
Reported-by: 范龙飞 <long7573@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c
@@ -1929,6 +1929,9 @@ static int snd_seq_ioctl_set_client_pool
(! snd_seq_write_pool_allocated(client) ||
info.output_pool != client->pool->size)) {
if (snd_seq_write_pool_allocated(client)) {
+ /* is the pool in use? */
+ if (atomic_read(&client->pool->counter))
+ return -EBUSY;
/* remove all existing cells */
snd_seq_pool_mark_closing(client->pool);
snd_seq_queue_client_leave_cells(client->number);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/alsa-seq-don-t-allow-resizing-pool-in-use.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-seq-more-protection-for-concurrent-write-and-ioctl-races.patch