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

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Message-Id: <20180531223518.18675-1-chenbo@pdx.edu>
Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 15:35:18 -0700
From:   Bo Chen <chenbo@....edu>
To:     tiwai@...e.com
Cc:     perex@...ex.cz, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bo Chen <chenbo@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Handle kzalloc() failure in snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream()

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>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
index d1eb14842340..a12e594d4e3b 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
@@ -748,8 +748,10 @@ int snd_hda_attach_pcm_stream(struct hda_bus *_bus, struct hda_codec *codec,
 		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;
-- 
2.17.0