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Takashi Iwai authored
This is a fix for a (sort of) fallout in the recent commit
d15d662e ("ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations") for
CVE-2018-1000004.
As the pool resize deletes the existing cells, it may lead to a race
when another thread is writing concurrently, eventually resulting a
UAF.

A simple workaround is not to allow the pool resizing when the pool is
in use.  It's an invalid behavior in anyway.

Fixes: d15d662e ("ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations")
Reported-by: default avatar范龙飞 <long7573@126.com>
Reported-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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