From: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
To: vkoul@kernel.org, perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com
Cc: pierre-louis.bossart@linux.dev, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] ALSA: compress: fix buffer leak on repeated SET_PARAMS
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:25:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007132509.18237-2-peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261007132509.18237-1-peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
snd_compr_allocate_buffer() unconditionally overwrites
stream->runtime->buffer with a freshly kmalloc'd buffer whenever the
driver has no ops->copy and no preallocated dma_buffer_p. SET_PARAMS
is permitted repeatedly while the stream is in the OPEN state, so a
local process can loop SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS and leak the
previous buffer on every call, exhausting kernel memory.
Free any framework-owned buffer before replacing it, mirroring the
ownership check already used in snd_compr_free().
Fixes: b21c60a4edd2 ("ALSA: core: add support for compress_offload")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
---
sound/core/compress_offload.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/core/compress_offload.c b/sound/core/compress_offload.c
index 7c397b1c9231..c0ed76e1c844 100644
--- a/sound/core/compress_offload.c
+++ b/sound/core/compress_offload.c
@@ -613,6 +613,10 @@ static int snd_compr_allocate_buffer(struct snd_compr_stream *stream,
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ /* a prior SET_PARAMS may have left a framework-owned buffer behind */
+ if (!stream->runtime->dma_buffer_p)
+ kfree(stream->runtime->buffer);
+
stream->runtime->buffer = buffer;
stream->runtime->buffer_size = buffer_size;
params:
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 13:25 [PATCH 0/4] ALSA: compress: fix buffer handling and state validation Peter Ujfalusi
2026-10-07 13:25 ` Peter Ujfalusi [this message]
2026-10-07 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] ALSA: compress: fix buffer leak on repeated SET_PARAMS Takashi Iwai
2026-10-07 14:10 ` Vinod Koul
2026-10-07 14:25 ` Péter Ujfalusi
2026-10-07 14:37 ` Vinod Koul
2026-10-08 6:25 ` Péter Ujfalusi
2026-10-08 7:57 ` Péter Ujfalusi
2026-10-08 7:54 ` Péter Ujfalusi
2026-10-07 14:08 ` Vinod Koul
2026-10-07 13:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] ALSA: compress: reject buffer geometry change on gapless next_track Peter Ujfalusi
2026-10-07 14:12 ` Vinod Koul
2026-10-07 13:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] ALSA: compress: add missing OPEN-state gate to SET_METADATA Peter Ujfalusi
2026-10-07 14:12 ` Vinod Koul
2026-10-07 13:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] ALSA: compress: reject restarting an ACTIVE task via origin_seqno Peter Ujfalusi
2026-10-07 14:14 ` Vinod Koul
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