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ALSA: caiaq: fix usb_dev refcount leak on probe failure
authorDeepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:19:34 +0000 (05:49 +0530)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:38:50 +0000 (14:38 +0200)
commit7a5f1cd22d47f8ca4b760b6334378ae42c1bd24b
tree3e738e80b031005a525d59c20cf3834293a1cf62
parentd1f73f169c1014463b5060e3f60813e13ddc7b87
ALSA: caiaq: fix usb_dev refcount leak on probe failure

create_card() takes a reference on the USB device with usb_get_dev()
and stores the matching usb_put_dev() in card_free(), which is
installed as the snd_card's ->private_free destructor.

However, ->private_free is only assigned near the end of init_card(),
after several failure points (usb_set_interface(), EP type checks,
usb_submit_urb(), the EP1_CMD_GET_DEVICE_INFO exchange, and its
timeout). When any of those fail, init_card() returns an error to
snd_probe(), which calls snd_card_free(card). Because ->private_free
is still NULL, card_free() never runs, the usb_get_dev() reference
is not dropped, and the struct usb_device leaks along with its
descriptor allocations and device_private.

syzbot reproduces this with a malformed UAC3 device whose only valid
altsetting is 0; init_card()'s usb_set_interface(usb_dev, 0, 1) call
fails with -EIO and triggers the leak.

Move the ->private_free assignment into create_card(), immediately
after usb_get_dev(), so that every error path reaching snd_card_free()
balances the reference. card_free()'s callees (snd_usb_caiaq_input_free,
free_urbs, kfree) already tolerate the partially-initialized state
because the chip private area is zero-initialized by snd_card_new().

Fixes: 80bb50e2d459 ("ALSA: caiaq: take a reference on the USB device in create_card()")
Reported-by: syzbot+2afd7e71155c7e241560@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2afd7e71155c7e241560
Tested-by: syzbot+2afd7e71155c7e241560@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260426001934.70813-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
sound/usb/caiaq/device.c