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Commit 80982c7e authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: seq: oss: Serialize ioctls



Some ioctls via OSS sequencer API may race and lead to UAF when the
port create and delete are performed concurrently, as spotted by a
couple of syzkaller cases.  This patch is an attempt to address it by
serializing the ioctls with the existing register_mutex.

Basically OSS sequencer API is an obsoleted interface and was designed
without much consideration of the concurrency.  There are very few
applications with it, and the concurrent performance isn't asked,
hence this "big hammer" approach should be good enough.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+1a54a94bd32716796edd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+9d2abfef257f3e2d4713@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarHillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200804185815.2453-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
parent cd72c317
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