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Takashi Iwai bd55842ed9 ALSA: pcm: Fix potential data race at PCM memory allocation helpers
The PCM memory allocation helpers have a sanity check against too many
buffer allocations.  However, the check is performed without a proper
lock and the allocation isn't serialized; this allows user to allocate
more memories than predefined max size.

Practically seen, this isn't really a big problem, as it's more or
less some "soft limit" as a sanity check, and it's not possible to
allocate unlimitedly.  But it's still better to address this for more
consistent behavior.

The patch covers the size check in do_alloc_pages() with the
card->memory_mutex, and increases the allocated size there for
preventing the further overflow.  When the actual allocation fails,
the size is decreased accordingly.

Reported-by: BassCheck <bass@buaa.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CADm8Tek6t0WedK+3Y6rbE5YEt19tML8BUL45N2ji4ZAz1KcN_A@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230703112430.30634-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2023-07-03 14:52:27 +02:00
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