Re: [PATCH v3] ALSA: hda: Fix widget_mutex incomplete protection

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:30:30 +0200,
Evan Green wrote:
> 
> The widget_mutex was introduced to serialize callers to
> hda_widget_sysfs_{re}init. However, its protection of the sysfs widget array
> is incomplete. For example, it is acquired around the call to
> hda_widget_sysfs_reinit(), which actually creates the new array, but isn't
> still acquired when codec->num_nodes and codec->start_nid is updated. So
> the lock ensures one thread sets up the new array at a time, but doesn't
> ensure which thread's value will end up in codec->num_nodes. If a larger
> num_nodes wins but a smaller array was set up, the next call to
> refresh_widgets() will touch free memory as it iterates over codec->num_nodes
> that aren't there.
> 
> The widget_lock really protects both the tree as well as codec->num_nodes,
> start_nid, and end_nid, so make sure it's held across that update. It should
> also be held during snd_hdac_get_sub_nodes(), so that a very old read from that
> function doesn't end up clobbering a later update.
> 
> Fixes: ed180abba7f1 ("ALSA: hda: Fix race between creating and refreshing sysfs entries")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi