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The ALSA proc helper manages the child nodes in a linked list, but its addition and deletion is done without any lock. This leads to a corruption if they are operated concurrently. Usually this isn't a problem because the proc entries are added sequentially in the driver probe procedure itself. But the card registrations are done often asynchronously, and the crash could be actually reproduced with syzkaller. This patch papers over it by protecting the link addition and deletion with the parent's mutex. There is "access" mutex that is used for the file access, and this can be reused for this purpose as well. Reported-by: syzbot+48df349490c36f9f54ab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.