[PATCH 2/2] ALSA: caiaq: take a reference on the USB device in create_card()
From: Berk Cem Goksel
Date: Fri Apr 10 2026 - 01:00:44 EST
The caiaq driver stores a pointer to the parent USB device in
cdev->chip.dev but never takes a reference on it. The card's
private_free callback, snd_usb_caiaq_card_free(), can run
asynchronously via snd_card_free_when_closed() after the USB
device has already been disconnected and freed, so any access to
cdev->chip.dev in that path dereferences a freed usb_device.
On top of the refcounting issue, the current card_free implementation
calls usb_reset_device(cdev->chip.dev). A reset in a free callback
is inappropriate: the device is going away, the call takes the
device lock in a teardown context, and the reset races with the
disconnect path that the callback is already cleaning up after.
Take a reference on the USB device in create_card() with
usb_get_dev(), drop it with usb_put_dev() in the free callback,
and remove the usb_reset_device() call.
Fixes: 523f1dce7096 ("ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: add support for NI Audio Kontrol 1")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Berk Cem Goksel <berkcgoksel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/caiaq/device.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/usb/caiaq/device.c b/sound/usb/caiaq/device.c
--- a/sound/usb/caiaq/device.c
+++ b/sound/usb/caiaq/device.c
@@ -385,7 +385,8 @@
snd_usb_caiaq_input_free(cdev);
#endif
snd_usb_caiaq_audio_free(cdev);
- usb_reset_device(cdev->chip.dev);
+ if (cdev->chip.dev)
+ usb_put_dev(cdev->chip.dev);
}
static int create_card(struct usb_device *usb_dev,
@@ -411,7 +412,7 @@
return err;
cdev = caiaqdev(card);
- cdev->chip.dev = usb_dev;
+ cdev->chip.dev = usb_get_dev(usb_dev);
cdev->chip.card = card;
cdev->chip.usb_id = USB_ID(le16_to_cpu(usb_dev->descriptor.idVendor),
le16_to_cpu(usb_dev->descriptor.idProduct));