This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions to the 3.15-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-control-don-t-access-controls-outside-of-protected-regions.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fd9f26e4eca5d08a27d12c0933fceef76ed9663d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:32:33 +0200 Subject: ALSA: control: Don't access controls outside of protected regions From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fd9f26e4eca5d08a27d12c0933fceef76ed9663d upstream. A control that is visible on the card->controls list can be freed at any time. This means we must not access any of its memory while not holding the controls_rw_lock. Otherwise we risk a use after free access. Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/control.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/sound/core/control.c +++ b/sound/core/control.c @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ int snd_ctl_add(struct snd_card *card, s { struct snd_ctl_elem_id id; unsigned int idx; + unsigned int count; int err = -EINVAL; if (! kcontrol) @@ -358,8 +359,9 @@ int snd_ctl_add(struct snd_card *card, s card->controls_count += kcontrol->count; kcontrol->id.numid = card->last_numid + 1; card->last_numid += kcontrol->count; + count = kcontrol->count; up_write(&card->controls_rwsem); - for (idx = 0; idx < kcontrol->count; idx++, id.index++, id.numid++) + for (idx = 0; idx < count; idx++, id.index++, id.numid++) snd_ctl_notify(card, SNDRV_CTL_EVENT_MASK_ADD, &id); return 0; @@ -388,6 +390,7 @@ int snd_ctl_replace(struct snd_card *car bool add_on_replace) { struct snd_ctl_elem_id id; + unsigned int count; unsigned int idx; struct snd_kcontrol *old; int ret; @@ -423,8 +426,9 @@ add: card->controls_count += kcontrol->count; kcontrol->id.numid = card->last_numid + 1; card->last_numid += kcontrol->count; + count = kcontrol->count; up_write(&card->controls_rwsem); - for (idx = 0; idx < kcontrol->count; idx++, id.index++, id.numid++) + for (idx = 0; idx < count; idx++, id.index++, id.numid++) snd_ctl_notify(card, SNDRV_CTL_EVENT_MASK_ADD, &id); return 0; @@ -897,9 +901,9 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_write(struct snd result = kctl->put(kctl, control); } if (result > 0) { + struct snd_ctl_elem_id id = control->id; up_read(&card->controls_rwsem); - snd_ctl_notify(card, SNDRV_CTL_EVENT_MASK_VALUE, - &control->id); + snd_ctl_notify(card, SNDRV_CTL_EVENT_MASK_VALUE, &id); return 0; } } @@ -1333,8 +1337,9 @@ static int snd_ctl_tlv_ioctl(struct snd_ } err = kctl->tlv.c(kctl, op_flag, tlv.length, _tlv->tlv); if (err > 0) { + struct snd_ctl_elem_id id = kctl->id; up_read(&card->controls_rwsem); - snd_ctl_notify(card, SNDRV_CTL_EVENT_MASK_TLV, &kctl->id); + snd_ctl_notify(card, SNDRV_CTL_EVENT_MASK_TLV, &id); return 0; } } else { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lars@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/alsa-control-protect-user-controls-against-concurrent-access.patch queue-3.15/asoc-dapm-make-sure-to-always-update-the-dapm-graph-in-_put_volsw.patch queue-3.15/alsa-control-don-t-access-controls-outside-of-protected-regions.patch queue-3.15/alsa-control-fix-replacing-user-controls.patch queue-3.15/alsa-control-make-sure-that-id-index-does-not-overflow.patch queue-3.15/alsa-control-handle-numid-overflow.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html