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ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.

PATCH In review Tamura Dai 2 participants 2 messages Jun 15, 2025 – Jun 24, 2025

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PATCH 1/1 ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.

sof_pdata->tplg_filename can have address allocated by kstrdup() and can be overwritten. Memory leak was detected with kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812391ff60 (size 16):
comm "kworker/4:1", pid 161, jiffies 4294802931
hex dump (first 16 bytes):

    73 6f 66 2d 68 64 61 2d 67 65 6e 65 72 69 63 00  sof-hda-generic.
  backtrace (crc 4bf1675c):
    __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x49c/0x6b0
    kstrdup+0x46/0xc0
    hda_machine_select.cold+0x1de/0x12cf [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]
    sof_init_environment+0x16f/0xb50 [snd_sof]
    sof_probe_continue+0x45/0x7c0 [snd_sof]
    sof_probe_work+0x1e/0x40 [snd_sof]
    process_one_work+0x894/0x14b0
    worker_thread+0x5e5/0xfb0
    kthread+0x39d/0x760
    ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
---
 sound/soc/sof/intel/hda.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
sound/soc/sof/intel/hda.c +3 -3
index bdfe388da198..3b47191ea7a5 100644
@@ -1257,11 +1257,11 @@ static int check_tplg_quirk_mask(struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static char *remove_file_ext(const char *tplg_filename)
+static char *remove_file_ext(struct device *dev, const char *tplg_filename)
 {
 	char *filename, *tmp;
 
-	filename = kstrdup(tplg_filename, GFP_KERNEL);
+	filename = devm_kstrdup(dev, tplg_filename, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!filename)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *hda_machine_select(struct snd_sof_dev *sdev)
 		 */
 		if (!sof_pdata->tplg_filename) {
 			/* remove file extension if it exists */
-			tplg_filename = remove_file_ext(mach->sof_tplg_filename);
+			tplg_filename = remove_file_ext(sdev->dev, mach->sof_tplg_filename);
 			if (!tplg_filename)
 				return NULL;
 
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sof_pdata->tplg_filename can have address allocated by kstrdup() and can be overwritten. Memory leak was detected with kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812391ff60 (size 16):
comm "kworker/4:1", pid 161, jiffies 4294802931
hex dump (first 16 bytes):

    73 6f 66 2d 68 64 61 2d 67 65 6e 65 72 69 63 00  sof-hda-generic.
  backtrace (crc 4bf1675c):
    __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x49c/0x6b0
    kstrdup+0x46/0xc0
    hda_machine_select.cold+0x1de/0x12cf [snd_sof_intel_hda_generic]
    sof_init_environment+0x16f/0xb50 [snd_sof]
    sof_probe_continue+0x45/0x7c0 [snd_sof]
    sof_probe_work+0x1e/0x40 [snd_sof]
    process_one_work+0x894/0x14b0
    worker_thread+0x5e5/0xfb0
    kthread+0x39d/0x760
    ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70
    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
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[1/1] ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak.

      commit: 6c038b58a2dc5a008c7e7a1297f5aaa4deaaaa7e

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Mark