[PATCH] ALSA: caiaq: Fix potential double-free at error path

From: Takashi Iwai

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 06:41:22 EST


The fix for caiaq driver's resource management to handle the errors
tries to release the resources in a common destructor call, but as a
sashiko review for another patch suggested, some of the audio
resources such as URBs have been already freed, and this may lead to a
double-free.

For addressing the double-free, call the common destructor function
from each place, and assure that the resource pointers get cleared.

Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260903084747.535367-1-eadavis%40sina.com
Fixes: 28abd224db4a ("ALSA: caiaq: Handle probe errors properly")
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c b/sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c
index ba3f73455ebe..bb6280aa3533 100644
--- a/sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c
+++ b/sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c
@@ -828,16 +828,13 @@ int snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init(struct snd_usb_caiaqdev *cdev)

cdev->data_urbs_in = alloc_urbs(cdev, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE, &ret);
if (ret < 0) {
- kfree(cdev->data_cb_info);
- free_urbs(cdev->data_urbs_in);
+ snd_usb_caiaq_audio_free(cdev);
return ret;
}

cdev->data_urbs_out = alloc_urbs(cdev, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &ret);
if (ret < 0) {
- kfree(cdev->data_cb_info);
- free_urbs(cdev->data_urbs_in);
- free_urbs(cdev->data_urbs_out);
+ snd_usb_caiaq_audio_free(cdev);
return ret;
}

@@ -858,6 +855,9 @@ void snd_usb_caiaq_audio_free(struct snd_usb_caiaqdev *cdev)

dev_dbg(dev, "%s(%p)\n", __func__, cdev);
free_urbs(cdev->data_urbs_in);
+ cdev->data_urbs_in = NULL;
free_urbs(cdev->data_urbs_out);
+ cdev->data_urbs_out = NULL;
kfree(cdev->data_cb_info);
+ cdev->data_cb_info = NULL;
}
--
2.55.0