[PATCH 3.16 104/366] ALSA: hda - Handle kzalloc() failure in snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()

Ben Hutchings
2018-11-11T19:49:05Z

From: Bo Chen <chenbo@pdx.edu>

commit a3aa60d511746bd6c0d0366d4eb90a7998bcde8b upstream.

When 'kzalloc()' fails in 'snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()', a new pcm instance is
created without setting its operators via 'snd_pcm_set_ops()'. Following
operations on the new pcm instance can trigger kernel null pointer dereferences
and cause kernel oops.

This bug was found with my work on building a gray-box fault-injection tool for
linux-kernel-module binaries. A kernel null pointer dereference was confirmed
from line 'substream->ops->open()' in function 'snd_pcm_open_substream()' in
file 'sound/core/pcm_native.c'.

This patch fixes the bug by calling 'snd_device_free()' in the error handling
path of 'kzalloc()', which removes the new pcm instance from the snd card before
returns with an error code.

Signed-off-by: Bo Chen <chenbo@pdx.edu>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
@@ -998,8 +998,10 @@ static int azx_attach_pcm_stream(struct
return err;
strlcpy(pcm->name, cpcm->name, sizeof(pcm->name));
apcm = kzalloc(sizeof(*apcm), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (apcm == NULL)
+ if (apcm == NULL) {
+ snd_device_free(chip->card, pcm);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
apcm->chip = chip;
apcm->pcm = pcm;
apcm->codec = codec;