This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: hda: Fix possible null-ptr-deref when assigning a stream to the 5.4-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: alsa-hda-fix-possible-null-ptr-deref-when-assigning-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 16dd7baa25aa337572ba9c2ac9e85eba4136552a Author: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 6 12:28:55 2023 +0200 ALSA: hda: Fix possible null-ptr-deref when assigning a stream [ Upstream commit f93dc90c2e8ed664985e366aa6459ac83cdab236 ] While AudioDSP drivers assign streams exclusively of HOST or LINK type, nothing blocks a user to attempt to assign a COUPLED stream. As supplied substream instance may be a stub, what is the case when code-loading, such scenario ends with null-ptr-deref. Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006102857.749143-2-cezary.rojewski@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c b/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c index 2beb94828729d..f810f401c1de8 100644 --- a/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_stream.c @@ -313,8 +313,10 @@ struct hdac_stream *snd_hdac_stream_assign(struct hdac_bus *bus, struct hdac_stream *res = NULL; /* make a non-zero unique key for the substream */ - int key = (substream->pcm->device << 16) | (substream->number << 2) | - (substream->stream + 1); + int key = (substream->number << 2) | (substream->stream + 1); + + if (substream->pcm) + key |= (substream->pcm->device << 16); spin_lock_irq(&bus->reg_lock); list_for_each_entry(azx_dev, &bus->stream_list, list) {