CVE-2022-49272

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.
Configurations

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OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.10.109:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.16.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.17.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2025-02-26 07:01

Updated : 2025-09-22 20:32


NVD link : CVE-2022-49272

Mitre link : CVE-2022-49272

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-49272


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-667

Improper Locking