From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:31:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix double-free in snd_usb_add_audio_stream() Message-Id: List-Id: References: <1459364602-28997-1-git-send-email-vdronov@redhat.com> <1459364602-28997-2-git-send-email-vdronov@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1459364602-28997-2-git-send-email-vdronov@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Vladis Dronov Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:03:22 +0200, Vladis Dronov wrote: > > There is a double-free bug in [snd-usb-audio] module due to alloc/free logic > flaw in snd_usb_add_audio_stream() function. This leads to kernel structures > corruption and panic. Fix the code flow and alloc/free logic so there is no > double-free. > > The detailed analysis: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id83358 > > Reported-by: Ralf Spenneberg > Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov Thanks for the report. But how about a simpler fix like below? Takashi --- diff --git a/sound/usb/quirks.c b/sound/usb/quirks.c index fb62bce2435c..0e154ae7924e 100644 --- a/sound/usb/quirks.c +++ b/sound/usb/quirks.c @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ static int create_fixed_stream_quirk(struct snd_usb_audio *chip, usb_audio_err(chip, "cannot memdup\n"); return -ENOMEM; } + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fp->list); if (fp->nr_rates > MAX_NR_RATES) { kfree(fp); return -EINVAL; @@ -193,8 +194,11 @@ static int create_fixed_stream_quirk(struct snd_usb_audio *chip, return 0; error: - kfree(fp); - kfree(rate_table); + /* linked fp will be removed in snd_usb_audio_pcm_free() */ + if (list_empty(&fp->list)) { + kfree(fp); + kfree(rate_table); + } return err; }