[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3] ALSA: hda: Abort capability probe on invalid capability

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 06:26:47PM +0530, Rakesh Ughreja wrote:
> On reading wrong capability pointer values driver may crash, so whenever
> driver discovers unknown HDA capability, log it as error and stop traversing
> the link list further.

Acked-By: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>

> Signed-off-by: Rakesh Ughreja <rakesh.a.ughreja at intel.com>
> ---
>  sound/hda/hdac_controller.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c b/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c
> index 978dc18..8f7d0d9 100644
> --- a/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c
> +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_controller.c
> @@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ int snd_hdac_bus_parse_capabilities(struct hdac_bus *bus)
>  			break;
>  
>  		default:
> -			dev_dbg(bus->dev, "Unknown capability %d\n", cur_cap);
> +			dev_err(bus->dev, "Unknown capability %d\n", cur_cap);
> +			cur_cap = 0;
>  			break;
>  		}
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
~Vinod