Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/hdmi - Fix duplicate unref of pci_dev

From: Nicholas Johnson
Date: Tue Dec 10 2019 - 08:47:37 EST


On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 02:39:50PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> Nicholas Johnson reports a null pointer deref as well as a refcount
> underflow upon hot-removal of a Thunderbolt-attached AMD eGPU.
> He's bisected the issue down to commit 586bc4aab878 ("ALSA: hda/hdmi -
> fix vgaswitcheroo detection for AMD").
>
> The commit iterates over PCI devices using pci_get_class() and
> unreferences each device found, even though pci_get_class()
> subsequently unreferences the device as well. Fix it.
>
> Fixes: 586bc4aab878 ("ALSA: hda/hdmi - fix vgaswitcheroo detection for AMD")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/PSXP216MB0438BFEAA0617283A834E11580580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Reported-and-tested-by: Nicholas Johnson <nicholas.johnson-opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> index 35b4526f0d28..b856b89378ac 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> @@ -1419,7 +1419,6 @@ static bool atpx_present(void)
> return true;
> }
> }
> - pci_dev_put(pdev);
> }
> return false;
> }
> --
> 2.24.0
>
Extremely fast turnaround from bisect to patch.

If you want the bugzilla.kernel.org report then I can do that ASAP, but
I feel that it is redundant now.

Thank you for handling my bug report.

Regards,
Nicholas