Patch "ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close

to the 3.14-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-fix-race-at-timer-setup-and-close.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:36:27 +0100
Subject: ALSA: seq: Fix race at timer setup and close

From: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>

commit 3567eb6af614dac436c4b16a8d426f9faed639b3 upstream.

ALSA sequencer code has an open race between the timer setup ioctl and the close of the client. This was triggered by syzkaller fuzzer, and a use-after-free was caught there as a result.

This patch papers over it by adding a proper queue->timer_mutex lock around the timer-related calls in the relevant code path.

---
 sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ static struct snd_seq_queue *queue_new(i
 static void queue_delete(struct snd_seq_queue *q)
 {
 	/* stop and release the timer */
+	mutex_lock(&q->timer_mutex);
 	snd_seq_timer_stop(q->timer);
 	snd_seq_timer_close(q);
+	mutex_unlock(&q->timer_mutex);
 	/* wait until access free */
 	snd_use_lock_sync(&q->use_lock);
 	/* release resources... */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/alsa-hrtimer-fix-stall-by-hrtimer_cancel.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-harden-slave-timer-list-handling.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-double-unlink-of-active_list.patch queue-3.14/alsa-control-avoid-kernel-warnings-from-tlv-ioctl-with-numid-0.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-realtek-fix-silent-headphone-output-on-macpro-4-1-v2.patch queue-3.14/alsa-rme96-fix-unexpected-volume-reset-after-rate-changes.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-set-skl-hda-controller-power-at-freeze-and-thaw.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-add-inverted-dmic-for-packard-bell-dots.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-add-intel-lewisburg-device-ids-audio.patch queue-3.14/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-timer-setup-and-close.patch queue-3.14/alsa-pcm-fix-snd_pcm_hw_params-struct-copy-in-compat-mode.patch queue-3.14/alsa-seq-fix-snd_seq_call_port_info_ioctl-in-compat-mode.patch queue-3.14/alsa-seq-fix-missing-null-check-at-remove_events-ioctl.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-race-among-timer-ioctls.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-apply-pin-fixup-for-hp-probook-6550b.patch