linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38486: soundwire: Revert "soundwire: qcom: Add set_channel

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Message-ID: <2025072815-CVE-2025-38486-e3f6@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:22:28 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38486: soundwire: Revert "soundwire: qcom: Add set_channel_map api support"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

soundwire: Revert "soundwire: qcom: Add set_channel_map api support"

This reverts commit 7796c97df6b1b2206681a07f3c80f6023a6593d5.

This patch broke Dragonboard 845c (sdm845). I see:

    Unexpected kernel BRK exception at EL1
    Internal error: BRK handler: 00000000f20003e8 [#1]  SMP
    pc : qcom_swrm_set_channel_map+0x7c/0x80 [soundwire_qcom]
    lr : snd_soc_dai_set_channel_map+0x34/0x78
    Call trace:
     qcom_swrm_set_channel_map+0x7c/0x80 [soundwire_qcom] (P)
     sdm845_dai_init+0x18c/0x2e0 [snd_soc_sdm845]
     snd_soc_link_init+0x28/0x6c
     snd_soc_bind_card+0x5f4/0xb0c
     snd_soc_register_card+0x148/0x1a4
     devm_snd_soc_register_card+0x50/0xb0
     sdm845_snd_platform_probe+0x124/0x148 [snd_soc_sdm845]
     platform_probe+0x6c/0xd0
     really_probe+0xc0/0x2a4
     __driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x130
     driver_probe_device+0x40/0x118
     __device_attach_driver+0xc4/0x108
     bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xf0
     __device_attach+0xa4/0x198
     device_initial_probe+0x18/0x28
     bus_probe_device+0xb8/0xbc
     deferred_probe_work_func+0xac/0xfc
     process_one_work+0x244/0x658
     worker_thread+0x1b4/0x360
     kthread+0x148/0x228
     ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
    Kernel panic - not syncing: BRK handler: Fatal exception

Dan has also reported following issues with the original patch
https://lore.kernel.org/all/33fe8fe7-719a-405a-9ed2-d9f816ce1d57@sabinyo.mountain/

Bug #1:
The zeroeth element of ctrl->pconfig[] is supposed to be unused.  We
start counting at 1.  However this code sets ctrl->pconfig[0].ch_mask = 128.

Bug #2:
There are SLIM_MAX_TX_PORTS (16) elements in tx_ch[] array but only
QCOM_SDW_MAX_PORTS + 1 (15) in the ctrl->pconfig[] array so it corrupts
memory like Yongqin Liu pointed out.

Bug 3:
Like Jie Gan pointed out, it erases all the tx information with the rx
information.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38486 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 7796c97df6b1b2206681a07f3c80f6023a6593d5 and fixed in 6.15.8 with commit 207cea8b72fcbdf4e6db178e54186ed4f1514b3c
	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 7796c97df6b1b2206681a07f3c80f6023a6593d5 and fixed in 6.16 with commit 834bce6a715ae9a9c4dce7892454a19adf22b013

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38486
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/soundwire/qcom.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/207cea8b72fcbdf4e6db178e54186ed4f1514b3c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/834bce6a715ae9a9c4dce7892454a19adf22b013