[PATCH] ASoC: qcom: q6apm-dai: Allocate an extra page for PCM buffers
From: Srinivas Kandagatla
Date: Thu May 14 2026 - 05:07:24 EST
Some Old DSP firmware versions use 32-bit address arithmetic and size for
validating the PCM buffer address range. If a buffer is allocated near
the top of the 32-bit address space, arithmetic calculations involving
the end address can overflow and fail checks.
Work around this by increasing the preallocated PCM buffer size by one
page. The DSP is still passed the usable buffer size, excluding the extra
page, which prevents the firmware from seeing an end address that crosses
the 32-bit boundary.
This was not hit before because PCM buffer allocation and DSP-side
mapping happened at different points, and the size mapped on the DSP was
usually nperiods * period_size. Therefore the mapped size was unlikely to
match the full preallocated buffer size exactly, although the issue was
still possible. With early buffer mapping on the DSP, the full
preallocated buffer is mapped during PCM creation, making the failure
reproducible at boot.
Fixes: 8ea6e25c8536 ("ASoC: qcom: q6apm: Add support for early buffer mapping on DSP")
Cc: Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Jens Glathe <jens.glathe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7f10abbd-fb78-4c3a-ab90-7ca78239891a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c b/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c
index ede19fdea6e9..3a1be41df096 100644
--- a/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c
+++ b/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6apm-dai.c
@@ -497,7 +497,12 @@ static int q6apm_dai_pcm_new(struct snd_soc_component *component, struct snd_soc
{
struct snd_soc_dai *cpu_dai = snd_soc_rtd_to_cpu(rtd, 0);
struct snd_pcm *pcm = rtd->pcm;
- int size = BUFFER_BYTES_MAX;
+ /*
+ * Allocate one extra page as a workaround for a DSP bug where 32-bit
+ * address arithmetic can overflow when the buffer is placed near the
+ * end of the addressable range.
+ */
+ int size = BUFFER_BYTES_MAX + PAGE_SIZE;
int graph_id, ret;
struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
--
2.47.3