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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49272"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T01:56:18.626Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:56:29.104Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49272"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49272.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49272"
title: "ALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock\n\nsyzbot caught a potential deadlock between the PCM\nruntime-\u003ebuffer_mutex and the mm-\u003emmap_lock.  It was brought by the\nrecent fix to cover the racy read/write and other ioctls, and in that\ncommit, I overlooked a (hopefully only) corner case that may take the\nrevert lock, namely, the OSS mmap.  The OSS mmap operation\nexceptionally allows to re-configure the parameters inside the OSS\nmmap syscall, where mm-\u003emmap_mutex is already held.  Meanwhile, the\ncopy_from/to_user calls at read/write operations also take the\nmm-\u003emmap_lock internally, hence it may lead to a AB/BA deadlock.\n\nA similar problem was already seen in the past and we fixed it with a\nrefcount (in commit b248371628aa).  The former fix covered only the\ncall paths with OSS read/write and OSS ioctls, while we need to cover\nthe concurrent access via both ALSA and OSS APIs now.\n\nThis patch addresses the problem above by replacing the buffer_mutex\nlock in the read/write operations with a refcount similar as we've\nused for OSS.  The new field, runtime-\u003ebuffer_accessing, keeps the\nnumber of concurrent read/write operations.  Unlike the former\nbuffer_mutex protection, this protects only around the\ncopy_from/to_user() calls; the other codes are basically protected by\nthe PCM stream lock.  The refcount can be a negative, meaning blocked\nby the ioctls.  If a negative value is seen, the read/write aborts\nwith -EBUSY.  In the ioctl side, OTOH, they check this refcount, too,\nand set to a negative value for blocking unless it's already being\naccessed."
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