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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


  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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