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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Pecio <michal.pecio@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ALSA: usb: hiface: Avoid embedded URBs
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2026 16:56:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903145648.1914352-3-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903145648.1914352-1-tiwai@suse.de>

The hiface driver uses URBs embedded in struct pcm_urb, and this is
basically a buggy implementation nowadays; since a URB is managed with
a refcount, this may lead to a UAF when the URB is released
asynchronously.

For addressing the problem, this patch converts the embedded URBs to
ones that are properly allocated via usb_alloc_urb().

The conversion is rather straightforward; pcm_urb.instance became a
pointer, assigned/freed via usb_alloc_urb() and usb_free_urb(), and
the call with this is corrected accordingly.

No functional changes, only compile-tested.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260903130757.0668310a.michal.pecio@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
 sound/usb/hiface/pcm.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/hiface/pcm.c b/sound/usb/hiface/pcm.c
index cd1a4c871c5d..9571c9eabd57 100644
--- a/sound/usb/hiface/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/hiface/pcm.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 struct pcm_urb {
 	struct hiface_chip *chip;
 
-	struct urb instance;
+	struct urb *instance;
 	struct usb_anchor submitted;
 	u8 *buffer;
 };
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ static void hiface_pcm_stream_stop(struct pcm_runtime *rt)
 			if (!time)
 				usb_kill_anchored_urbs(
 					&rt->out_urbs[i].submitted);
-			usb_kill_urb(&rt->out_urbs[i].instance);
+			usb_kill_urb(rt->out_urbs[i].instance);
 		}
 
 		rt->stream_state = STREAM_DISABLED;
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ static int hiface_pcm_stream_start(struct pcm_runtime *rt)
 		rt->stream_state = STREAM_STARTING;
 		for (i = 0; i < PCM_N_URBS; i++) {
 			memset(rt->out_urbs[i].buffer, 0, PCM_PACKET_SIZE);
-			usb_anchor_urb(&rt->out_urbs[i].instance,
+			usb_anchor_urb(rt->out_urbs[i].instance,
 				       &rt->out_urbs[i].submitted);
-			ret = usb_submit_urb(&rt->out_urbs[i].instance,
+			ret = usb_submit_urb(rt->out_urbs[i].instance,
 					     GFP_ATOMIC);
 			if (ret) {
 				hiface_pcm_stream_stop(rt);
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static void hiface_pcm_out_urb_handler(struct urb *usb_urb)
 	if (do_period_elapsed)
 		snd_pcm_period_elapsed(sub->instance);
 
-	ret = usb_submit_urb(&out_urb->instance, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	ret = usb_submit_urb(out_urb->instance, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out_fail;
 
@@ -492,16 +492,18 @@ static int hiface_pcm_init_urb(struct pcm_urb *urb,
 			       void (*handler)(struct urb *))
 {
 	urb->chip = chip;
-	usb_init_urb(&urb->instance);
+	urb->instance = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!urb->instance)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	urb->buffer = kzalloc(PCM_PACKET_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!urb->buffer)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	usb_fill_bulk_urb(&urb->instance, chip->dev,
+	usb_fill_bulk_urb(urb->instance, chip->dev,
 			  usb_sndbulkpipe(chip->dev, ep), (void *)urb->buffer,
 			  PCM_PACKET_SIZE, handler, urb);
-	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(&urb->instance))
+	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb->instance))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	init_usb_anchor(&urb->submitted);
 
@@ -525,8 +527,10 @@ static void hiface_pcm_destroy(struct hiface_chip *chip)
 	struct pcm_runtime *rt = chip->pcm;
 	int i;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < PCM_N_URBS; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < PCM_N_URBS; i++) {
+		usb_free_urb(rt->out_urbs[i].instance);
 		kfree(rt->out_urbs[i].buffer);
+	}
 
 	kfree(chip->pcm);
 	chip->pcm = NULL;
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-03 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-03 14:56 [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: usb: Avoid embedded URBs Takashi Iwai
2026-09-03 14:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] ALSA: usb: ua101: " Takashi Iwai
2026-09-03 14:56 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2026-09-03 14:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] ALSA: usb: 6fire: " Takashi Iwai
2026-09-03 15:52 ` [PATCH 0/3] ALSA: usb: " Takashi Iwai

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