From: syzbot <syzbot+b6cab840e6a85641c7ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: kartikey406@gmail.com
Cc: kartikey406@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: ump: Fix double-free of ump->out_cvts on legacy rawmidi attach failure
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:16:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a694672.e3659fcc.2a40b8.0022.GAE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729001642.11188-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
> #syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
This crash does not have a reproducer. I cannot test it.
>
>
> If snd_rawmidi_new() fails inside snd_ump_attach_legacy_rawmidi(), the
> error path frees ump->out_cvts but leaves the pointer dangling. Since
> ump->out_cvts is a field of the long-lived struct snd_ump_endpoint
> (not the rawmidi device that failed to be created), it gets freed a
> second time later during normal endpoint teardown, in
> snd_ump_endpoint_free(), invoked via snd_rawmidi_free()'s
> private_free callback when the sound card is released. This results
> in a KASAN double-free/invalid-free.
>
> Clear ump->out_cvts to NULL after freeing it on the error path, so
> the later unconditional kfree() in snd_ump_endpoint_free() becomes a
> harmless no-op.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+b6cab840e6a85641c7ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b6cab840e6a85641c7ad
> Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
> ---
> sound/core/ump.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/sound/core/ump.c b/sound/core/ump.c
> index 70520c7ca293..632c13baf21e 100644
> --- a/sound/core/ump.c
> +++ b/sound/core/ump.c
> @@ -1365,6 +1365,7 @@ int snd_ump_attach_legacy_rawmidi(struct snd_ump_endpoint *ump,
> &rmidi);
> if (err < 0) {
> kfree(ump->out_cvts);
> + ump->out_cvts = NULL;
> return err;
> }
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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2026-07-29 0:16 ` syzbot [this message]
2026-07-29 0:23 [PATCH] ALSA: ump: Fix double-free of ump->out_cvts on legacy rawmidi attach failure Deepanshu Kartikey
2026-07-29 6:33 ` Takashi Iwai
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2026-07-29 0:21 ` syzbot
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2026-07-29 0:18 ` syzbot
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2026-07-29 0:15 ` syzbot
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