[PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: Free sideband sg_table objects

From: raoxu

Date: Tue Jun 16 2026 - 08:07:51 EST


From: Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The Qualcomm USB audio offload driver obtains an endpoint transfer-ring
table by calling xhci_sideband_get_endpoint_buffer(). This getter passes
the endpoint ring to xhci_ring_to_sgtable(), which allocates the outer
struct sg_table with kzalloc_obj(*sgt). The event-ring path is
equivalent: xhci_sideband_get_event_buffer() also returns the result of
xhci_ring_to_sgtable().

Inside xhci_ring_to_sgtable(), sg_alloc_table_from_pages() separately
allocates the scatterlist storage referenced by sgt->sgl. The returned
object therefore has two allocation layers: the outer struct sg_table
and its internal scatterlist storage.

The Qualcomm caller only invokes sg_free_table(sgt). sg_free_table()
releases the scatterlist storage owned by the table, but it does not
free the separately allocated outer struct sg_table. The local sgt
pointer is then discarded, so every successful endpoint or event-ring
query leaks the outer object.

Call kfree(sgt) after sg_free_table(sgt) in both setup paths, after the
required page and DMA addresses have been copied out.

Fixes: 326bbc348298 ("ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: Introduce QC USB SND offloading support")
Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/qcom/qc_audio_offload.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/usb/qcom/qc_audio_offload.c b/sound/usb/qcom/qc_audio_offload.c
index a0009503b2c5..3658d51143a6 100644
--- a/sound/usb/qcom/qc_audio_offload.c
+++ b/sound/usb/qcom/qc_audio_offload.c
@@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@ uaudio_endpoint_setup(struct snd_usb_substream *subs,
tr_pa = page_to_phys(pg);
mem_info->dma = sg_dma_address(sgt->sgl);
sg_free_table(sgt);
+ kfree(sgt);

/* data transfer ring */
iova = uaudio_iommu_map_pa(MEM_XFER_RING, dma_coherent, tr_pa,
@@ -1226,6 +1227,7 @@ static int uaudio_event_ring_setup(struct snd_usb_substream *subs,
er_pa = page_to_phys(pg);
mem_info->dma = sg_dma_address(sgt->sgl);
sg_free_table(sgt);
+ kfree(sgt);

iova = uaudio_iommu_map_pa(MEM_EVENT_RING, dma_coherent, er_pa,
PAGE_SIZE);
--
2.50.1