topology: plugins: fix off by 1 mem allocation error

GitHub pull_request - opened github at alsa-project.org
Mon Aug 1 22:43:39 CEST 2022


alsa-project/alsa-utils pull request #162 was opened from yongzhi1:

Fix valgrind memcheck error:

==1337389== Invalid write of size 1
==1337389==    at 0x4A4AFAB: __vsnprintf_internal (vsnprintf.c:117)
==1337389==    by 0x4AECF40: __snprintf_chk (snprintf_chk.c:38)
==1337389==    by 0x484B870: snprintf (stdio2.h:67)
==1337389==    by 0x484B870: print_as_hex_bytes (nhlt-processor.c:112)
==1337389==    by 0x484B870: merge_manifest_data (nhlt-processor.c:154)
==1337389==    by 0x484B870: do_nhlt (nhlt-processor.c:420)
==1337389==    by 0x484B870: _snd_topology_nhlt_process (nhlt-processor.c:484)

The consecutive snprintf overwrites always the previous terminator until
it hits the very last call of:

snprintf(dst, ALSA_BYTE_CHARS + 1, "0x%02x,", *nhlt_buffer);

when the size n given to snprintf is 1 more than allocated.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhi <yong.zhi at intel.com>

Request URL   : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/pull/162
Patch URL     : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils/pull/162.patch
Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-utils


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