This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: soc-compress: prevent the potentially use of null pointer to the 5.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: asoc-soc-compress-prevent-the-potentially-use-of-nul.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c40c017e44606c8b87ff0dc42a04cf4d322f0362 Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 15 08:13:53 2021 +0000 ASoC: soc-compress: prevent the potentially use of null pointer [ Upstream commit de2c6f98817fa5decb9b7d3b3a8a3ab864c10588 ] There is one call trace that snd_soc_register_card() ->snd_soc_bind_card()->soc_init_pcm_runtime() ->snd_soc_dai_compress_new()->snd_soc_new_compress(). In the trace the 'codec_dai' transfers from card->dai_link, and we can see from the snd_soc_add_pcm_runtime() in snd_soc_bind_card() that, if value of card->dai_link->num_codecs is 0, then 'codec_dai' could be null pointer caused by index out of bound in 'asoc_rtd_to_codec(rtd, 0)'. And snd_soc_register_card() is called by various platforms. Therefore, it is better to add the check in the case of misusing. And because 'cpu_dai' has already checked in soc_init_pcm_runtime(), there is no need to check again. Adding the check as follow, then if 'codec_dai' is null, snd_soc_new_compress() will not pass through the check 'if (playback + capture != 1)', avoiding the leftover use of 'codec_dai'. Fixes: 467fece ("ASoC: soc-dai: move snd_soc_dai_stream_valid() to soc-dai.c") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1634285633-529368-1-git-send-email-jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-compress.c b/sound/soc/soc-compress.c index 8e2494a9f3a7..f4b376a71be8 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-compress.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-compress.c @@ -568,12 +568,14 @@ int snd_soc_new_compress(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd, int num) } /* check client and interface hw capabilities */ - if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK) && - snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK)) - playback = 1; - if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE) && - snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)) - capture = 1; + if (codec_dai) { + if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK) && + snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK)) + playback = 1; + if (snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(codec_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE) && + snd_soc_dai_stream_valid(cpu_dai, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)) + capture = 1; + } /* * Compress devices are unidirectional so only one of the directions