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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com
Cc: kees@kernel.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+b6cab840e6a85641c7ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: ump: Fix double-free of ump->out_cvts on legacy rawmidi attach failure
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:53:33 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729002333.11525-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-29  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-29  0:23 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2026-07-29  6:33 ` [PATCH] ALSA: ump: Fix double-free of ump->out_cvts on legacy rawmidi attach failure Takashi Iwai

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