[alsa-devel] WARNING in snd_pcm_hw_params

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 02:02:02 +0200,
> syzbot wrote:
>>
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4468 at sound/core/pcm_native.c:620
>> snd_pcm_hw_params_choose sound/core/pcm_native.c:620 [inline]
>
> This is a WARN_ON() to catch the inconsistent hw_params call.
> This shouldn't happen in theory, but the reality looks weirder.
>
> The necessary "fix" is just to get rid of snd_BUG_ON(), but still
> wonder which condition it hits.  If it's an empty parameter, the
> previous snd_pcm_hw_refine() should have caught and returned the error
> beforehand...

Hi Takashi,

The reproducer for this is trivially simple:

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?id=4913841943085056

(and I guess perf_event_open is red herring).

But the really important part there is probably this: Fault:true
FaultCall:2 FaultNth:18
And you can see where it actually happened in the raw console log:

Raw console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?id=6314122077536256

Does it explain things?

> In anyway this can't be a real crash, let's remove the warning to stop
> the chorus of syzbot birds.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>
> -- 8< --
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Remove WARN_ON() at snd_pcm_hw_params() error
>
> snd_pcm_hw_params() may hit WARN_ON() when an inconsistent parameter
> set is passed.  Although this should have been caught by the former
> snd_pcm_hw_refine() and returned the error, syzkaller succeeded to
> pass through and hit the WARN_ON(), which in turn made it panic
> unnecessarily.
>
> For reducing this kind of noise, let's drop snd_BUG_ON() check.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+803e0047ac3a3096bb4f at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> ---
>  sound/core/pcm_native.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
> index b84554893fab..35ffccea94c3 100644
> --- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
> +++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
> @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_hw_params_choose(struct snd_pcm_substream *pcm,
>                         changed = snd_pcm_hw_param_first(pcm, params, *v, NULL);
>                 else
>                         changed = snd_pcm_hw_param_last(pcm, params, *v, NULL);
> -               if (snd_BUG_ON(changed < 0))
> +               if (changed < 0)
>                         return changed;
>                 if (changed == 0)
>                         continue;
> --
> 2.16.3
>
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