mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH] ALSA: memalloc: Free the new pages when WC DMA mapping fails
@ 2026-10-28 14:44 Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Sasha Levin @ 2026-10-28 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Takashi Iwai; +Cc: Sasha Levin, Jaroslav Kysela, linux-sound, linux-kernel

snd_dma_wc_alloc() keeps the newly allocated pages in a local variable,
and snd_dma_alloc_dir_pages() stores them in dmab->area only after
->alloc() returns.  If dma_map_single() fails, the error path passes
dmab->area to do_free_pages() instead, and that is still NULL at this
point for the usual callers.

The pages are then leaked with their write-combining attribute still
set, set_memory_wb() warns about the zero address, and for buffers
larger than a page free_pages_exact() goes on to free the struct pages
of the bogus addresses 4096, 8192 and so on.  With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM that
hits the VM_BUG_ON() in free_pages():

  kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:5600!
  RIP: 0010:free_pages_exact+0xcb/0xd0
  Call Trace:
   snd_dma_wc_alloc+0x14f/0x160 [snd_pcm]
   snd_dma_alloc_dir_pages+0x4f/0x80 [snd_pcm]

This was reproduced on an x86 guest without swiotlb by allocating
SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC buffers for a device with a 24-bit streaming DMA
mask, so that dma_map_single() fails.

Free the pages that were just allocated.

Fixes: c880a5146642 ("ALSA: memalloc: Use proper DMA mapping API for x86 WC buffer allocations")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 sound/core/memalloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/memalloc.c b/sound/core/memalloc.c
index 5bc7e586b430f..3118bb14231ce 100644
--- a/sound/core/memalloc.c
+++ b/sound/core/memalloc.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static void *snd_dma_wc_alloc(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
 		return NULL;
 	dmab->addr = dma_map_single(dmab->dev.dev, p, size, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
 	if (dma_mapping_error(dmab->dev.dev, dmab->addr)) {
-		do_free_pages(dmab->area, size, true);
+		do_free_pages(p, size, true);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	return p;
-- 
2.53.0


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2026-10-28 14:44 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2026-10-28 14:44 [PATCH] ALSA: memalloc: Free the new pages when WC DMA mapping fails Sasha Levin

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®