linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 41/85] ALSA: hda - Handle kzalloc() failure in snd_hda_attach_pcm

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Date:   Sun,  1 Jul 2018 18:01:59 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Bo Chen <chenbo@....edu>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 41/85] ALSA: hda - Handle kzalloc() failure in snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Bo Chen <chenbo@....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@....edu>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 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
@@ -915,8 +915,10 @@ 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;