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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: Hu Jiahui <kirin.say@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ALSA: pcm: Fix ioctl races
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:14:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53e52d32-dd17-7aa6-2ad0-432a5cf4cf35@perex.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220322170720.3529-1-tiwai@suse.de>

On 22. 03. 22 18:07, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a patch set to address the recently reported bug for the racy
> PCM ioctls.  In short, the current ALSA PCM core doesn't take enough
> care of concurrent ioctl calls, and the concurrent calls may result in
> a use-after-free.  The reported problem was the concurrent hw_free
> calls, but there can be similar cases with other code paths like
> hw_params, prepare, etc, too.
> 
> The patch set introduces the new runtime->buffer_mutex for protecting
> those.  The first patch is the fix for the reported issue (the races
> with hw_free), while the rest three are more hardening for the other
> similar executions.

Thank you Takashi.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

-- 
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-22 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-22 17:07 Takashi Iwai
2022-03-22 17:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hw_params and hw_free calls Takashi Iwai
2022-03-22 17:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent read/write and buffer changes Takashi Iwai
2022-03-22 17:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent prepare and hw_params/hw_free calls Takashi Iwai
2022-03-23  8:08   ` Amadeusz Sławiński
2022-03-23  8:15     ` Takashi Iwai
2022-03-23  8:22       ` Takashi Iwai
2022-03-22 17:07 ` [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent prealloc proc writes Takashi Iwai
2022-03-22 17:14 ` Jaroslav Kysela [this message]

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