[PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Don't WARN on NULL dma_area in the default mmap fault handler

From: Dmitriy Chumachenko

Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 07:25:41 EST


During fuzz testing, the following issue was discovered.

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1734 at sound/core/pcm_native.c:3835
snd_pcm_mmap_data_fault+0x47f/0x530 sound/core/pcm_native.c:3835

Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 1734 Comm: syz.1.352 Not tainted 6.1.187-syzkaller-00593-g063a81552262 #0
RIP: 0010:snd_pcm_mmap_data_fault+0x47f/0x530 sound/core/pcm_native.c:3835

Call Trace:
<TASK>
__do_fault+0x10d/0x480 mm/memory.c:4280
do_cow_fault mm/memory.c:4661 [inline]
do_fault+0xa7a/0x1100 mm/memory.c:4762
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5031 [inline]
__handle_mm_fault+0xdf3/0x2e40 mm/memory.c:5173
handle_mm_fault+0x2da/0xa60 mm/memory.c:5294
do_user_addr_fault+0x4aa/0x1050 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1338
handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1429 [inline]
exc_page_fault+0x98/0x1b0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1482
asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608

snd_pcm_mmap_data_fault() guards the default RAM-buffer path with
WARN_ON_ONCE(!runtime->dma_area). As commit d2913a07d903 notes, a driver
may allow mmap before dma_area is set up, so this state is reachable from
user space: mmap the PCM data region and fault it while the buffer is not
allocated. The WARN then fires on a user-triggerable path and panics a
kernel with panic_on_warn.

Drop the WARN; the NULL check and VM_FAULT_SIGBUS return stay, which is
the correct silent handling.

Fixes: d2913a07d903 ("ALSA: pcm: Add sanity NULL check for the default mmap fault handler")
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Chumachenko <Dmitry.Chumachenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
index fcb5f176f0df..dd640d90f6a3 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -3832,7 +3832,7 @@ static vm_fault_t snd_pcm_mmap_data_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
if (substream->ops->page)
page = substream->ops->page(substream, offset);
else if (!snd_pcm_get_dma_buf(substream)) {
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!runtime->dma_area))
+ if (!runtime->dma_area)
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
page = virt_to_page(runtime->dma_area + offset);
} else
--
2.49.0