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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: paulhsia <paulhsia@chromium.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: pcm: Fix race condition in runtime access
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:16:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h1rud7yel.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112171715.128727-1-paulhsia@chromium.org>

On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:17:13 +0100,
paulhsia wrote:
> 
> Since
> - snd_pcm_detach_substream sets runtime to null without stream lock and
> - snd_pcm_period_elapsed checks the nullity of the runtime outside of
>   stream lock.
> 
> This will trigger null memory access in snd_pcm_running() call in
> snd_pcm_period_elapsed.

Well, if a stream is detached, it means that the stream must have been
already closed; i.e. it's already a clear bug in the driver that
snd_pcm_period_elapsed() is called against such a stream.

Or am I missing other possible case?


thanks,

Takashi

> 
> paulhsia (2):
>   ALSA: pcm: Fix stream lock usage in snd_pcm_period_elapsed()
>   ALSA: pcm: Use stream lock in snd_pcm_detach_substream()
> 
>  sound/core/pcm.c     | 8 +++++++-
>  sound/core/pcm_lib.c | 8 ++++++--
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.24.0.rc1.363.gb1bccd3e3d-goog
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-12 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 17:17 [alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: pcm: Fix race condition in runtime access paulhsia
2019-11-12 17:17 ` [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: pcm: Fix stream lock usage in snd_pcm_period_elapsed() paulhsia
2019-11-12 17:17 ` [alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: pcm: Use stream lock in snd_pcm_detach_substream() paulhsia
2019-11-12 18:16 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2019-11-13  7:24   ` [alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: pcm: Fix race condition in runtime access Chih-Yang Hsia
2019-11-13  9:47     ` Takashi Iwai
2019-11-13 11:36       ` Takashi Iwai
2019-11-14 14:16         ` Chih-Yang Hsia
2019-11-14 14:20           ` Takashi Iwai
2019-11-14 16:37             ` Chih-Yang Hsia
2019-11-14 17:00               ` Takashi Iwai
2019-11-15 15:36                 ` Chih-Yang Hsia
     [not found]                 ` <CAJaf1Ta1tqYMCTaWxeL82gfY8Fg6hidLjHO3FFiqU7yyn5oVPg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <s5hy2whi1gw.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
2019-11-15 17:04                     ` Chih-Yang Hsia
2019-11-15 17:07                       ` Takashi Iwai

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