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ALSA: hda - Handle kzalloc() failure in snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()
authorBo Chen <chenbo@pdx.edu>
Thu, 31 May 2018 22:35:18 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fri, 1 Jun 2018 07:38:54 +0000 (09:38 +0200)
commita3aa60d511746bd6c0d0366d4eb90a7998bcde8b
treec680e0958aa6bee4408fdbf26254a284ba683748
parent9ee92f5355f8264de20c8337823aff918c717aee
ALSA: hda - Handle kzalloc() failure in snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()

When 'kzalloc()' fails in 'snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()', a new pcm instance is
created without setting its operators via 'snd_pcm_set_ops()'. Following
operations on the new pcm instance can trigger kernel null pointer dereferences
and cause kernel oops.

This bug was found with my work on building a gray-box fault-injection tool for
linux-kernel-module binaries. A kernel null pointer dereference was confirmed
from line 'substream->ops->open()' in function 'snd_pcm_open_substream()' in
file 'sound/core/pcm_native.c'.

This patch fixes the bug by calling 'snd_device_free()' in the error handling
path of 'kzalloc()', which removes the new pcm instance from the snd card before
returns with an error code.

Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chenbo@pdx.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c