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From: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] sound/usb: fix NULL dereference in usb_audio_probe()
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:00:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb4nokgb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160315115339.2a50466a@recife.lan> (Mauro Carvalho Chehab's message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:53:39 -0300")

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> writes:

> Em Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:41:28 +0100
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> escreveu:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:35:06 +0100,
>> Nicolai Stange wrote:
>> > 
>> > With commit
>> > 
>> >   aebb2b89bff0 ("[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share
>> >                  media resources")
>> > 
>> > an access to quirk->media_device without checking for quirk != NULL has
>> > been introduced in usb_audio_probe().
>> > 
>> > With a Plantronics USB headset (device ID 0x047f:0xc010) attached,
>> > this results in the following splat at boot time:
>> > 
>> >   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000014
>> >   IP: [<ffffffffa089aa6c>] usb_audio_probe+0x2cc/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio]
>> >   Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> >   [...]
>> >   CPU: 2 PID: 696 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.5.0-next-20160315 #13
>> >   Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6540/0725FP, BIOS A10 06/26/2014
>> >   task: ffff88021c88d7c0 ti: ffff88003d5b0000 task.ti: ffff88003d5b0000
>> >   RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa089aa6c>]  [<ffffffffa089aa6c>]
>> >                                 usb_audio_probe+0x2cc/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio]
>> >   [...]
>> >   Call Trace:
>> >    [<ffffffff815a8e16>] usb_probe_interface+0x136/0x2d0
>> >    [<ffffffff81509edc>] driver_probe_device+0x22c/0x440
>> >    [<ffffffff8150a1c1>] __driver_attach+0xd1/0xf0
>> >    [<ffffffff8150a0f0>] ? driver_probe_device+0x440/0x440
>> >    [<ffffffff815077ec>] bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0xc0
>> >    [<ffffffff815095ce>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
>> >    [<ffffffff81509013>] bus_add_driver+0x1c3/0x280
>> >    [<ffffffff8150ab10>] driver_register+0x60/0xe0
>> >    [<ffffffff815a7711>] usb_register_driver+0x81/0x140
>> >    [<ffffffffa08c7000>] ? 0xffffffffa08c7000
>> >    [<ffffffffa08c701e>] usb_audio_driver_init+0x1e/0x1000 [snd_usb_audio]
>> >    [<ffffffff81002123>] do_one_initcall+0xb3/0x1f0
>> >    [<ffffffff811fb091>] ? __vunmap+0x81/0xd0
>> >    [<ffffffff8121b8d2>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x182/0x1d0
>> >    [<ffffffff811b0267>] ? do_init_module+0x27/0x1d8
>> >    [<ffffffff811b029f>] do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d8
>> >    [<ffffffff8112ce35>] load_module+0x1fe5/0x27a0
>> >    [<ffffffff81129870>] ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60
>> >    [<ffffffff81241690>] ? vfs_read+0x110/0x130
>> >    [<ffffffff8112d866>] SYSC_finit_module+0xe6/0x120
>> >    [<ffffffff8112d8be>] SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10
>> >    [<ffffffff81003d94>] do_syscall_64+0x64/0x110
>> >    [<ffffffff817c0b61>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
>> > 
>> > After encountering this, the system-udevd process seems to be blocked
>> > until it is killed when hitting its timeout of 3min.
>> > 
>> > In analogy to the other accesses to members of quirk in usb_audio_probe(),
>> > check for quirk != NULL before accessing its ->media_device.
>> > 
>> > Fixes: aebb2b89bff0 ("[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share
>> >                       media resources")
>> > Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>  
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
>> 
>> Mauro, please merge through your tree.  I haven't merged MC changes
>> into my tree yet.
>
> OK, I'll send this fix together with some other patches in a couple
> of days (it needs to go first to linux-next ;) ).
>

Thank you all!

Nicolai

>> 
>> 
>> > ---
>> >  Applicable to linux-next-20160315.
>> > 
>> >  sound/usb/card.c | 2 +-
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c
>> > index 63244bb..479621e 100644
>> > --- a/sound/usb/card.c
>> > +++ b/sound/usb/card.c
>> > @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static int usb_audio_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
>> >  	if (err < 0)
>> >  		goto __error;
>> >  
>> > -	if (quirk->media_device) {
>> > +	if (quirk && quirk->media_device) {
>> >  		/* don't want to fail when media_snd_device_create() fails */
>> >  		media_snd_device_create(chip, intf);
>> >  	}
>> > -- 
>> > 2.7.2
>> > 
>> >   

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 12:35 [PATCH] [media] sound/usb: fix NULL dereference in usb_audio_probe() Nicolai Stange
2016-03-15 12:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-15 14:53   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-03-15 15:00     ` Nicolai Stange [this message]
2016-03-15 13:37 ` Shuah Khan

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