[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] hda: fix out-of-bound hdmi_eld.sad[] write

Wu Fengguang fengguang.wu at intel.com
Wed Jul 29 13:31:14 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:25:11PM +0200, Roel Kluin wrote:
> e->sad[] is declared with size ELD_MAX_SAD (16), but the guard allows
> the range 0-31

Good catch, thank you, Roel!

Minor fix: '>=' should be used in this line:

> +			if (n < 0 || n > ELD_MAX_SAD)

So I'd suggest this updated patch.

Thanks,
Fengguang
---
hda: fix out-of-bound hdmi_eld.sad[] write

From: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin at gmail.com>

e->sad[] is declared with size ELD_MAX_SAD=16, but the guard
allows range 0-31.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_eld.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- sound-2.6.orig/sound/pci/hda/hda_eld.c
+++ sound-2.6/sound/pci/hda/hda_eld.c
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static void hdmi_write_eld_info(struct s
 	char name[64];
 	char *sname;
 	long long val;
-	int n;
+	unsigned int n;
 
 	while (!snd_info_get_line(buffer, line, sizeof(line))) {
 		if (sscanf(line, "%s %llx", name, &val) != 2)
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static void hdmi_write_eld_info(struct s
 				sname++;
 				n = 10 * n + name[4] - '0';
 			}
-			if (n < 0 || n > 31) /* double the CEA limit */
+			if (n >= ELD_MAX_SAD)
 				continue;
 			if (!strcmp(sname, "_coding_type"))
 				e->sad[n].format = val;


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