Affected: Linux

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

ALSA: timer: fix ida_free call while not allocated

In the snd_utimer_create() function, if the kasprintf() function return NULL, snd_utimer_put_id() will be called, finally use ida_free() to free the unallocated id 0.

the syzkaller reported the following information: ------------[ cut here ]------------ ida_free called for id=0 which is not allocated. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1286 at lib/idr.c:592 ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1286 Comm: syz-executor164 Not tainted 6.15.8 #3 PREEMPT(lazy) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.fc42 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592 Code: f8 fc 41 83 fc 3e 76 69 e8 70 b2 f8 (...) RSP: 0018:ffffc900007f79c8 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff920000fef3b RCX: ffffffff872176a5 RDX: ffff88800369d200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88800369d200 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff87ba60a5 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f6f1abc1740(0000) GS:ffff8880d76a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f6f1ad7a784 CR3: 000000007a6e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> snd_utimer_put_id sound/core/timer.c:2043 [inline] [snd_timer] snd_utimer_create+0x59b…