From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "Péter Ujfalusi" <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>,
Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>,
Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>,
Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>,
Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.dev>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
Paul Olaru <paul.olaru@oss.nxp.com>,
Laurentiu Mihalcea <laurentiu.mihalcea@nxp.com>,
sound-open-firmware@alsa-project.org,
linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: Don't allow pointer operations on unconfigured streams
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:52:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aca1sW6ca1QJBN9V@sirena.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cd96fe7-4575-40f9-a1f2-610fb1fac5c1@linux.intel.com>
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 11:49:41AM +0200, Péter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 26/03/2026 16:52, Mark Brown wrote:
> > + if (!sstream->channels || !sstream->sample_container_bytes)
> > + return -EBUSY;
> > +
> Is this a theoretical fix?
> I don't think this can happen in real world as set_params would need to
> fail and if that failed then applications would not ask for a pointer as
> the compress stream cannot be even started.
Yes, it's not something that would happen in the real world with a non
buggy (or hostile) userspace. Still, we shouldn't leave this stuff
open.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-26 14:52 [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: Don't allow pointer operations on unconfigured streams Mark Brown
2026-03-27 2:09 ` Liao, Bard
2026-03-27 16:48 ` Mark Brown
2026-03-27 9:49 ` Péter Ujfalusi
2026-03-27 16:52 ` Mark Brown [this message]
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