linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] ALSA: hda/tas2781: Fix a potential race condition that causes a NULL pointer in case no efi.get

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Message-ID: <20250911071131.1886-1-shenghao-ding@ti.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:11:31 +0800
From: Shenghao Ding <shenghao-ding@...com>
To: <tiwai@...e.de>
CC: <broonie@...nel.org>, <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        <13564923607@....com>, <13916275206@....com>,
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <baojun.xu@...com>, <Baojun.Xu@....com>,
        Shenghao Ding <shenghao-ding@...com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] ALSA: hda/tas2781: Fix a potential race condition that causes a NULL pointer in case no efi.get_variable exsits

A a potential race condition reported by one of my customers that leads to
a NULL pointer dereference, where the call to efi.get_variable should be
guarded with efi_rt_services_supported() to ensure that function exists.

Fixes: 4fe238513407 ("ALSA: hda/tas2781: Move and unified the calibrated-data getting function for SPI and I2C into the tas2781_hda lib")
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Ding <shenghao-ding@...com>
---
 sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda.c     | 5 +++++
 sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda_i2c.c | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda.c b/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda.c
index 536940c78f00..96e6d82dc69e 100644
--- a/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda.c
+++ b/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda.c
@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ int tas2781_save_calibration(struct tas2781_hda *hda)
 	efi_status_t status;
 	int i;
 
+	if (!efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_VARIABLE)) {
+		dev_err(p->dev, "%s: NO EFI FOUND!\n", __func__);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (hda->catlog_id < LENOVO)
 		efi_guid = tasdev_fct_efi_guid[hda->catlog_id];
 
diff --git a/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda_i2c.c b/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda_i2c.c
index 008dbe1490a7..4dea442d8c30 100644
--- a/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda_i2c.c
+++ b/sound/hda/codecs/side-codecs/tas2781_hda_i2c.c
@@ -317,6 +317,11 @@ static int tas2563_save_calibration(struct tas2781_hda *h)
 	unsigned int attr;
 	int ret, i, j, k;
 
+	if (!efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_GET_VARIABLE)) {
+		dev_err(p->dev, "%s: NO EFI FOUND!\n", __func__);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	cd->cali_dat_sz_per_dev = TAS2563_CAL_DATA_SIZE * TASDEV_CALIB_N;
 
 	/* extra byte for each device is the device number */
-- 
2.43.0