ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of OSS capture stream

When the trigger=off is passed for a PCM OSS stream, it sets the
start_threshold of the given substream to the boundary size, so that
it won't be automatically started.  This can be problematic for a
capture stream, unfortunately, as detected by syzkaller.  The scenario
is like the following:

- In __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() that is invoked from snd_pcm_oss_read()
  loop, we have a check whether the stream was already started or the
  stream can be auto-started.
- The function at this check returns 0 with trigger=off since we
  explicitly disable the auto-start.
- The loop continues and repeats calling __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() tightly,
  which may lead to an RCU stall.

This patch fixes the bug by simply allowing the wait for non-started
stream in the case of OSS capture.  For native usages, it's supposed
to be done by the caller side (which is user-space), hence it returns
zero like before.

(In theory, __snd_pcm_lib_xfer() could wait even for the native API
 usage cases, too; but I'd like to stay in a safer side for not
 breaking the existing stuff for now.)

Reported-by: syzbot+fbe0496f92a0ce7b786c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
index 40013b26f67196b23bcf94d69890b2835cde9f9d..6c99fa8ac5fa183c1b7241366e9e75d7d413b7b9 100644 (file)
--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -2112,6 +2112,13 @@ int pcm_lib_apply_appl_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
        return 0;
 }
 
+/* allow waiting for a capture stream that hasn't been started */
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS)
+#define wait_capture_start(substream)  ((substream)->oss.oss)
+#else
+#define wait_capture_start(substream)  false
+#endif
+
 /* the common loop for read/write data */
 snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
                                     void *data, bool interleaved,
@@ -2182,7 +2189,7 @@ snd_pcm_sframes_t __snd_pcm_lib_xfer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
                        err = snd_pcm_start(substream);
                        if (err < 0)
                                goto _end_unlock;
-               } else {
+               } else if (!wait_capture_start(substream)) {
                        /* nothing to do */
                        err = 0;
                        goto _end_unlock;