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From: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
To: tiwai@suse.com, yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com
Cc: pierre-louis.bossart@linux.dev, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@opensource.cirrus.com
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Prevent SEGFAULT if ACPI_HANDLE() is NULL
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:06:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250917160609.461718-1-rf@opensource.cirrus.com> (raw)

Check in snd_intel_dsp_check_soundwire() that the pointer returned by
ACPI_HANDLE() is not NULL, before passing it on to other functions.

The original code assumed a non-NULL return, but if it was unexpectedly
NULL it would end up passed to acpi_walk_namespace() as the start
point, and would result in

[    3.219028] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
0000000000000018
[    3.219029] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[    3.219030] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[    3.219031] PGD 0 P4D 0
[    3.219032] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[    3.219035] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 476 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G S
AW   E       6.17.0-rc5-test #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[    3.219038] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [A]=OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE,
[W]=WARN, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[    3.219040] RIP: 0010:acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xb5/0x480

This problem was triggered by a bugged DSDT that the kernel couldn't parse.
But it shouldn't be possible to SEGFAULT the kernel just because of some
bugs in ACPI.

Fixes: 0650857570d1 ("ALSA: hda: add autodetection for SoundWire")
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
---
 sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c b/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c
index c15284742899..2a9e35cddcf7 100644
--- a/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c
+++ b/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c
@@ -650,6 +650,8 @@ static int snd_intel_dsp_check_soundwire(struct pci_dev *pci)
 	int ret;
 
 	handle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pci->dev);
+	if (!handle)
+		return -ENODEV;
 
 	ret = sdw_intel_acpi_scan(handle, &info);
 	if (ret < 0)
-- 
2.39.5


             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-17 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-17 16:06 Richard Fitzgerald [this message]
2025-09-17 16:20 ` [PATCH] ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Prevent SEGFAULT if ACPI_HANDLE() is NULL Takashi Iwai

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