[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ALSA: control: Make sure that id->index does not overflow" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jul 1 08:51:32 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: control: Make sure that id->index does not overflow

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c23b7bb5cd8a17ec5736ae3a2836f60782e3ee95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:32:35 +0200
Subject: ALSA: control: Make sure that id->index does not overflow

commit 883a1d49f0d77d30012f114b2e19fc141beb3e8e upstream.

The ALSA control code expects that the range of assigned indices to a control is
continuous and does not overflow. Currently there are no checks to enforce this.
If a control with a overflowing index range is created that control becomes
effectively inaccessible and unremovable since snd_ctl_find_id() will not be
able to find it. This patch adds a check that makes sure that controls with a
overflowing index range can not be created.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de>
Acked-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/control.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/control.c b/sound/core/control.c
index 93215b4bec6b..98a29b26c5f4 100644
--- a/sound/core/control.c
+++ b/sound/core/control.c
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ int snd_ctl_add(struct snd_card *card, struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol)
 	if (snd_BUG_ON(!card || !kcontrol->info))
 		goto error;
 	id = kcontrol->id;
+	if (id.index > UINT_MAX - kcontrol->count)
+		goto error;
+
 	down_write(&card->controls_rwsem);
 	if (snd_ctl_find_id(card, &id)) {
 		up_write(&card->controls_rwsem);
--
1.9.1





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