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Commit d309b6a2 authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ALSA: seq: Fix racy deletion of subscriber

commit 97367c97

 upstream.

It turned out that the current implementation of the port subscription
is racy.  The subscription contains two linked lists, and we have to
add to or delete from both lists.  Since both connection and
disconnection procedures perform the same order for those two lists
(i.e. src list, then dest list), when a deletion happens during a
connection procedure, the src list may be deleted before the dest list
addition completes, and this may lead to a use-after-free or an Oops,
even though the access to both lists are protected via mutex.

The simple workaround for this race is to change the access order for
the disconnection, namely, dest list, then src list.  This assures
that the connection has been established when disconnecting, and also
the concurrent deletion can be avoided.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarfolkert <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210801182754.GP890690@belle.intranet.vanheusden.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803114312.2536-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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