Re: [PATCH] [media] sound/usb: fix NULL dereference in usb_audio_probe()

From: Nicolai Stange
Date: Tue Mar 15 2016 - 11:00:18 EST


Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Em Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:41:28 +0100
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:35:06 +0100,
>> Nicolai Stange wrote:
>> >
>> > With commit
>> >
>> > aebb2b89bff0 ("[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share
>> > media resources")
>> >
>> > an access to quirk->media_device without checking for quirk != NULL has
>> > been introduced in usb_audio_probe().
>> >
>> > With a Plantronics USB headset (device ID 0x047f:0xc010) attached,
>> > this results in the following splat at boot time:
>> >
>> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000014
>> > IP: [<ffffffffa089aa6c>] usb_audio_probe+0x2cc/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio]
>> > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> > [...]
>> > CPU: 2 PID: 696 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.5.0-next-20160315 #13
>> > Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6540/0725FP, BIOS A10 06/26/2014
>> > task: ffff88021c88d7c0 ti: ffff88003d5b0000 task.ti: ffff88003d5b0000
>> > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa089aa6c>] [<ffffffffa089aa6c>]
>> > usb_audio_probe+0x2cc/0x9a0 [snd_usb_audio]
>> > [...]
>> > Call Trace:
>> > [<ffffffff815a8e16>] usb_probe_interface+0x136/0x2d0
>> > [<ffffffff81509edc>] driver_probe_device+0x22c/0x440
>> > [<ffffffff8150a1c1>] __driver_attach+0xd1/0xf0
>> > [<ffffffff8150a0f0>] ? driver_probe_device+0x440/0x440
>> > [<ffffffff815077ec>] bus_for_each_dev+0x6c/0xc0
>> > [<ffffffff815095ce>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
>> > [<ffffffff81509013>] bus_add_driver+0x1c3/0x280
>> > [<ffffffff8150ab10>] driver_register+0x60/0xe0
>> > [<ffffffff815a7711>] usb_register_driver+0x81/0x140
>> > [<ffffffffa08c7000>] ? 0xffffffffa08c7000
>> > [<ffffffffa08c701e>] usb_audio_driver_init+0x1e/0x1000 [snd_usb_audio]
>> > [<ffffffff81002123>] do_one_initcall+0xb3/0x1f0
>> > [<ffffffff811fb091>] ? __vunmap+0x81/0xd0
>> > [<ffffffff8121b8d2>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x182/0x1d0
>> > [<ffffffff811b0267>] ? do_init_module+0x27/0x1d8
>> > [<ffffffff811b029f>] do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d8
>> > [<ffffffff8112ce35>] load_module+0x1fe5/0x27a0
>> > [<ffffffff81129870>] ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60
>> > [<ffffffff81241690>] ? vfs_read+0x110/0x130
>> > [<ffffffff8112d866>] SYSC_finit_module+0xe6/0x120
>> > [<ffffffff8112d8be>] SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10
>> > [<ffffffff81003d94>] do_syscall_64+0x64/0x110
>> > [<ffffffff817c0b61>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
>> >
>> > After encountering this, the system-udevd process seems to be blocked
>> > until it is killed when hitting its timeout of 3min.
>> >
>> > In analogy to the other accesses to members of quirk in usb_audio_probe(),
>> > check for quirk != NULL before accessing its ->media_device.
>> >
>> > Fixes: aebb2b89bff0 ("[media] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share
>> > media resources")
>> > Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Mauro, please merge through your tree. I haven't merged MC changes
>> into my tree yet.
>
> OK, I'll send this fix together with some other patches in a couple
> of days (it needs to go first to linux-next ;) ).
>

Thank you all!

Nicolai

>>
>>
>> > ---
>> > Applicable to linux-next-20160315.
>> >
>> > sound/usb/card.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c
>> > index 63244bb..479621e 100644
>> > --- a/sound/usb/card.c
>> > +++ b/sound/usb/card.c
>> > @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static int usb_audio_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
>> > if (err < 0)
>> > goto __error;
>> >
>> > - if (quirk->media_device) {
>> > + if (quirk && quirk->media_device) {
>> > /* don't want to fail when media_snd_device_create() fails */
>> > media_snd_device_create(chip, intf);
>> > }
>> > --
>> > 2.7.2
>> >
>> >