[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: pcm: Fix snd_pcm_hw_params struct copy in compat mode" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

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

    ALSA: pcm: Fix snd_pcm_hw_params struct copy in compat mode

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 1fe687657cb449192e148abc0823d459b51be642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat at chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:35:00 +0800
Subject: ALSA: pcm: Fix snd_pcm_hw_params struct copy in compat mode

commit 43c54b8c7cfe22f868a751ba8a59abf1724160b1 upstream.

This reverts one hunk of
commit ef44a1ec6eee ("ALSA: sound/core: use memdup_user()"), which
replaced a number of kmalloc followed by memcpy with memdup calls.

In this case, we are copying from a struct snd_pcm_hw_params32 to
a struct snd_pcm_hw_params, but the latter is 4 bytes longer than
the 32-bit version, so we need to separate kmalloc and copy calls.

This actually leads to an out-of-bounds memory access later on
in sound/soc/soc-pcm.c:soc_pcm_hw_params() (detected using KASan).

Fixes: ef44a1ec6eee ('ALSA: sound/core: use memdup_user()')
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/pcm_compat.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_compat.c b/sound/core/pcm_compat.c
index c4ac3c1e19af..1bb1a43c7d03 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_compat.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_compat.c
@@ -236,10 +236,15 @@ static int snd_pcm_ioctl_hw_params_compat(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	if (! (runtime = substream->runtime))
 		return -ENOTTY;

-	/* only fifo_size is different, so just copy all */
-	data = memdup_user(data32, sizeof(*data32));
-	if (IS_ERR(data))
-		return PTR_ERR(data);
+	data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!data)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	/* only fifo_size (RO from userspace) is different, so just copy all */
+	if (copy_from_user(data, data32, sizeof(*data32))) {
+		err = -EFAULT;
+		goto error;
+	}

 	if (refine)
 		err = snd_pcm_hw_refine(substream, data);