[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Fix memory leak at closing a stream without hw_free

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Wed Jan 29 20:59:07 CET 2020


ALSA PCM core recently introduced a new managed PCM buffer allocation
mode that does allocate / free automatically at hw_params and
hw_free.  However, it overlooked the code path directly calling
hw_free PCM ops at releasing the PCM substream, and it may result in a
memory leak as spotted by syzkaller when no buffer preallocation is
used (e.g. vmalloc buffer).

This patch papers over it with a slight refactoring.  The hw_free ops
call and relevant tasks are unified in a new helper function, and call
it from both places.

Fixes: 0dba808eae26 ("ALSA: pcm: Introduce managed buffer allocation mode")
Reported-by: syzbot+30edd0f34bfcdc548ac4 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/core/pcm_native.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
index bb23f5066654..4ac42ee1238c 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -786,10 +786,22 @@ static int snd_pcm_hw_params_user(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	return err;
 }
 
+static int do_hw_free(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
+{
+	int result = 0;
+
+	snd_pcm_sync_stop(substream);
+	if (substream->ops->hw_free)
+		result = substream->ops->hw_free(substream);
+	if (substream->managed_buffer_alloc)
+		snd_pcm_lib_free_pages(substream);
+	return result;
+}
+
 static int snd_pcm_hw_free(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 {
 	struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime;
-	int result = 0;
+	int result;
 
 	if (PCM_RUNTIME_CHECK(substream))
 		return -ENXIO;
@@ -806,11 +818,7 @@ static int snd_pcm_hw_free(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	snd_pcm_stream_unlock_irq(substream);
 	if (atomic_read(&substream->mmap_count))
 		return -EBADFD;
-	snd_pcm_sync_stop(substream);
-	if (substream->ops->hw_free)
-		result = substream->ops->hw_free(substream);
-	if (substream->managed_buffer_alloc)
-		snd_pcm_lib_free_pages(substream);
+	result = do_hw_free(substream);
 	snd_pcm_set_state(substream, SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN);
 	pm_qos_remove_request(&substream->latency_pm_qos_req);
 	return result;
@@ -2529,9 +2537,7 @@ void snd_pcm_release_substream(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 
 	snd_pcm_drop(substream);
 	if (substream->hw_opened) {
-		if (substream->ops->hw_free &&
-		    substream->runtime->status->state != SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN)
-			substream->ops->hw_free(substream);
+		do_hw_free(substream);
 		substream->ops->close(substream);
 		substream->hw_opened = 0;
 	}
-- 
2.16.4



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