CVE-2022-49268

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ASoC: SOF: Intel: Fix NULL ptr dereference when ENOMEM

Do not call snd_dma_free_pages() when snd_dma_alloc_pages() returns
-ENOMEM because it leads to a NULL pointer dereference bug.

The dmesg says:

  [ T1387] sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl 0000:00:1f.3: error: memory alloc failed: -12
  [ T1387] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  [ T1387] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  [ T1387] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  [ T1387] PGD 0 P4D 0
  [ T1387] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
  [ T1387] CPU: 6 PID: 1387 Comm: alsa-sink-HDA A Tainted: G        W         5.17.0-rc4-superb-owl-00055-g80d47f5de5e3
  [ T1387] Hardware name: HP HP Laptop 14s-dq2xxx/87FD, BIOS F.15 09/15/2021
  [ T1387] RIP: 0010:dma_free_noncontiguous+0x37/0x80
  [ T1387] Code: [... snip ...]
  [ T1387] RSP: 0000:ffffc90002b87770 EFLAGS: 00010246
  [ T1387] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
  [ T1387] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888101db30d0
  [ T1387] RBP: 00000000fffffff4 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  [ T1387] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc90002b874d0 R12: 0000000000000001
  [ T1387] R13: 0000000000058000 R14: ffff888105260c68 R15: ffff888105260828
  [ T1387] FS:  00007f42e2ffd640(0000) GS:ffff888466b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [ T1387] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [ T1387] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000014acf0003 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
  [ T1387] PKRU: 55555554
  [ T1387] Call Trace:
  [ T1387]  <TASK>
  [ T1387]  cl_stream_prepare+0x10a/0x120 [snd_sof_intel_hda_common 146addf995b9279ae7f509621078cccbe4f875e1]
  [... snip ...]
  [ T1387]  </TASK>
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
LinuxCNA
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