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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5768149e3e6aa0f0688b44412548b7a1cab9bf03 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 93215b4..98a29b2 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