Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-08-03 05:23:42
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_ccallback.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.
From 9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <redacted> Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:44:20 -0400 Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Kangjie Lu <redacted> commit 9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6 upstream. The stack object “r1” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field “event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <redacted> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <redacted> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- sound/core/timer.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c@@ -1208,6 +1208,7 @@ static void snd_timer_user_ccallback(str tu->tstamp = *tstamp; if ((tu->filter & (1 << event)) == 0 || !tu->tread) return; + memset(&r1, 0, sizeof(r1)); r1.event = event; r1.tstamp = *tstamp; r1.val = resolution;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kangjielu@gmail.com are queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_ccallback.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-sndrv_timer_ioctl_params.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_tinterrupt.patch