[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/1] sound/hda/hdac_stream: Avoid NULL pointer dereference

Mariusz Ceier mceier+kernel at gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 21:53:57 CET 2019


For ca0132 codec, azx_dev->stream is NULL during firmware loading.
Calling snd_hdac_get_stream_stripe_ctl unconditionally causes NULL
pointer dereference in that function.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Ceier <mceier+kernel at gmail.com>
---
 sound/hda/hdac_stream.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c b/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c
index f5dd288d1a7a..76e9b41fcea2 100644
--- a/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c
+++ b/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c
@@ -95,7 +95,10 @@ void snd_hdac_stream_start(struct hdac_stream *azx_dev, bool fresh_start)
 			      1 << azx_dev->index,
 			      1 << azx_dev->index);
 	/* set stripe control */
-	stripe_ctl = snd_hdac_get_stream_stripe_ctl(bus, azx_dev->substream);
+	if (azx_dev->substream)
+		stripe_ctl = snd_hdac_get_stream_stripe_ctl(bus, azx_dev->substream);
+	else
+		stripe_ctl = 0;
 	snd_hdac_stream_updateb(azx_dev, SD_CTL_3B, SD_CTL_STRIPE_MASK,
 				stripe_ctl);
 	/* set DMA start and interrupt mask */
-- 
2.21.0



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