[PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Serialize PCM mmap with buffer reallocation to fix page UAF
From: Yilin Zhang
Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 00:56:11 EST
snd_pcm_hw_params() and snd_pcm_hw_free() guard buffer reallocation
with an mmap_count check performed under the PCM stream lock, but the
lock is released long before the buffer is actually freed:
snd_pcm_sync_stop(), constraint refinement and do_free_pages() all
happen in between. snd_pcm_mmap_data(), on the other hand, takes no
lock at all: it validates against the old buffer's state and
dma_bytes, remaps its pages into the VMA, and only then increments
mmap_count.
A concurrent mmap() can therefore slip in between the check and the
free. remap_pfn_range() installs writable PTEs for the old buffer's
pages without taking page references, and the subsequent
do_free_pages() returns those pages to the page allocator while the
VMA still maps them. This leaves a stale, writable mapping of freed
pages: a page-level use-after-free that can be leveraged for local
privilege escalation.
Make snd_pcm_mmap_data() participate in the buffer-access scheme
introduced for hw_params/hw_free: acquire runtime->buffer_accessing
before validating and remapping, and release it afterwards. Buffer
reallocation already fails with -EBUSY while accessors are active,
and the mmap side now fails with -EBUSY while a reallocation is in
progress, so the validate/remap sequence and the check/free sequence
can no longer interleave.
A reproducer that turns this race into a stale writable mapping of
the freed DMA buffer pages is available on request.
Reported-by: Kimi Security Team <bug-report@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 92ee3c60ec9f ("ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hw_params and hw_free calls")
Signed-off-by: Yilin Zhang <yilinzhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -3937,20 +3937,33 @@
return -EINVAL;
}
runtime = substream->runtime;
- if (runtime->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN)
- return -EBADFD;
- if (!(runtime->info & SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP))
- return -ENXIO;
+ /* don't race with buffer reallocation in hw_params/hw_free */
+ if (!atomic_inc_unless_negative(&runtime->buffer_accessing))
+ return -EBUSY;
+ if (runtime->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN) {
+ err = -EBADFD;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ if (!(runtime->info & SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP)) {
+ err = -ENXIO;
+ goto out;
+ }
if (runtime->access == SNDRV_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED ||
- runtime->access == SNDRV_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED)
- return -EINVAL;
+ runtime->access == SNDRV_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
size = area->vm_end - area->vm_start;
offset = area->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
dma_bytes = PAGE_ALIGN(runtime->dma_bytes);
- if ((size_t)size > dma_bytes)
- return -EINVAL;
- if (offset > dma_bytes - size)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if ((size_t)size > dma_bytes) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ if (offset > dma_bytes - size) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
area->vm_ops = &snd_pcm_vm_ops_data;
area->vm_private_data = substream;
@@ -3960,6 +3973,8 @@
err = snd_pcm_lib_default_mmap(substream, area);
if (!err)
atomic_inc(&substream->mmap_count);
+out:
+ atomic_dec(&runtime->buffer_accessing);
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_pcm_mmap_data);
--
2.43.0