CVE-2022-49272
Published: Feb 26, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock syzbot caught a potential deadlock between the PCM runtime->buffer_mutex and the mm->mmap_lock. It was brought by the recent fix to cover the racy read/write and other ioctls, and in that commit, I overlooked a (hopefully only) corner case that may take the revert lock, namely, the OSS mmap. The OSS mmap operation exceptionally allows to re-configure the parameters inside the OSS mmap syscall, where mm->mmap_mutex is already held. Meanwhile, the copy_from/to_user calls at read/write operations also take the mm->mmap_lock internally, hence it may lead to a AB/BA deadlock. A similar problem was already seen in the past and we fixed it with a refcount (in commit b248371628aa). The former fix covered only the call paths with OSS read/write and OSS ioctls, while we need to cover the concurrent access via both ALSA and OSS APIs now. This patch addresses the problem above by replacing the buffer_mutex lock in the read/write operations with a refcount similar as we've used for OSS. The new field, runtime->buffer_accessing, keeps the number of concurrent read/write operations. Unlike the former buffer_mutex protection, this protects only around the copy_from/to_user() calls; the other codes are basically protected by the PCM stream lock. The refcount can be a negative, meaning blocked by the ioctls. If a negative value is seen, the read/write aborts with -EBUSY. In the ioctl side, OTOH, they check this refcount, too, and set to a negative value for blocking unless it's already being accessed.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 73867cb2bc7dfa7fbd219e53a0b68d253d8fda09 - < 7e9133607e1501c94881be35e118d8f84d96dcb4affected b3830197aa7413c65767cf5a1aa8775c83f0dbf7 - < 40f4cffbe13a51faf136faf5f9ef6847782cd595affected 08d1807f097a63ea00a7067dad89c1c81cb2115e - < 9661bf674d6a82b76e4ae424438a8ce1e3ed855daffected 8527c8f052fb42091c6569cb928e472376a4a889 - < 9017201e8d8c6d1472273361389ed431188584a0affected 47711ff10c7e126702cfa725f6d86ef529d15a5f - < 7777744e92a0b30e3e0cce2758d911837011ebd9+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.10.109 - < 5.10.110affected 5.15.32 - < 5.15.33affected 5.16.18 - < 5.16.19affected 5.17.1 - < 5.17.2 |
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