ALSA: rawmidi: Fix racy buffer resize under concurrent accesses
The rawmidi core allows user to resize the runtime buffer via ioctl, and this may lead to UAF when performed during concurrent reads or writes: the read/write functions unlock the runtime lock temporarily during copying form/to user-space, and that's the race window. This patch fixes the hole by introducing a reference counter for the runtime buffer read/write access and returns -EBUSY error when the resize is performed concurrently against read/write. Note that the ref count field is a simple integer instead of refcount_t here, since the all contexts accessing the buffer is basically protected with a spinlock, hence we need no expensive atomic ops. Also, note that this busy check is needed only against read / write functions, and not in receive/transmit callbacks; the race can happen only at the spinlock hole mentioned in the above, while the whole function is protected for receive / transmit callbacks. Reported-by: butt3rflyh4ck <butter...
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