[PATCH 3.13 057/103] ALSA: core: fix buffer overflow in snd_info_get_line()

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.13.11.8 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>

commit ddc64b278a4dda052390b3de1b551e59acdff105 upstream.

snd_info_get_line() documents that its last parameter must be one
less than the buffer size, but this API design guarantees that
(literally) every caller gets it wrong.

Just change this parameter to have its obvious meaning.

Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/info.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/info.c b/sound/core/info.c
index e79baa1..08070e1 100644
--- a/sound/core/info.c
+++ b/sound/core/info.c
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ int snd_info_card_free(struct snd_card *card)
  * snd_info_get_line - read one line from the procfs buffer
  * @buffer: the procfs buffer
  * @line: the buffer to store
- * @len: the max. buffer size - 1
+ * @len: the max. buffer size
  *
  * Reads one line from the buffer and stores the string.
  *
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ int snd_info_get_line(struct snd_info_buffer *buffer, char *line, int len)
 			buffer->stop = 1;
 		if (c == '\n')
 			break;
-		if (len) {
+		if (len > 1) {
 			len--;
 			*line++ = c;
 		}
-- 
1.9.1