CVE-2022-49272
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2022
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
ALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock
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.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73867cb2bc7dfa7fbd219e53a0b68d253d8fda09 | affected | git | 7e9133607e1501c94881be35e118d8f84d96dcb4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b3830197aa7413c65767cf5a1aa8775c83f0dbf7 | affected | git | 40f4cffbe13a51faf136faf5f9ef6847782cd595 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 08d1807f097a63ea00a7067dad89c1c81cb2115e | affected | git | 9661bf674d6a82b76e4ae424438a8ce1e3ed855d | Unavailable | None listed |
| 8527c8f052fb42091c6569cb928e472376a4a889 | affected | git | 9017201e8d8c6d1472273361389ed431188584a0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 47711ff10c7e126702cfa725f6d86ef529d15a5f | affected | git | 7777744e92a0b30e3e0cce2758d911837011ebd9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4d1b0ace2d56dc27cc4921eda7fae57f77f03eb5 | affected | git | abedf0d08c79d76da0d6fa0d5dbbc98871dcbc2e | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2f8c684da3e226e5ec7a81c89ff5fd4a957a03 | affected | git | be9813ad2fc8f0885f5ce6925af0d993ce5da4e5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| dca947d4d26dbf925a64a6cfb2ddbc035e831a3d | affected | git | bc55cfd5718c7c23e5524582e9fa70b4d10f2433 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.10.109 | affected | semver | 5.10.110 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.32 | affected | semver | 5.15.33 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.16.18 | affected | semver | 5.16.19 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.17.1 | affected | semver | 5.17.2 | Unavailable | None listed |