[PATCH] ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Prevent SEGFAULT if ACPI_HANDLE() is NULL

From: Richard Fitzgerald
Date: Wed Sep 17 2025 - 12:22:19 EST


Check in snd_intel_dsp_check_soundwire() that the pointer returned by
ACPI_HANDLE() is not NULL, before passing it on to other functions.

The original code assumed a non-NULL return, but if it was unexpectedly
NULL it would end up passed to acpi_walk_namespace() as the start
point, and would result in

[ 3.219028] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
0000000000000018
[ 3.219029] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 3.219030] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 3.219031] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 3.219032] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 3.219035] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 476 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G S
AW E 6.17.0-rc5-test #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 3.219038] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [A]=OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE,
[W]=WARN, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[ 3.219040] RIP: 0010:acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xb5/0x480

This problem was triggered by a bugged DSDT that the kernel couldn't parse.
But it shouldn't be possible to SEGFAULT the kernel just because of some
bugs in ACPI.

Fixes: 0650857570d1 ("ALSA: hda: add autodetection for SoundWire")
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c b/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c
index c15284742899..2a9e35cddcf7 100644
--- a/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c
+++ b/sound/hda/core/intel-dsp-config.c
@@ -650,6 +650,8 @@ static int snd_intel_dsp_check_soundwire(struct pci_dev *pci)
int ret;

handle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pci->dev);
+ if (!handle)
+ return -ENODEV;

ret = sdw_intel_acpi_scan(handle, &info);
if (ret < 0)
--
2.39.5