At Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:08:31 +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
Iwai-san,
I have some questions for this patch.
On Mar 12 2015 02:15, Takashi Iwai wrote:
There was no check about the id string of user control elements, so we accepted even a control element with an empty string, which is obviously bogus. This patch adds more sanity checks of id strings.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de
sound/core/control.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/core/control.c b/sound/core/control.c index 35324a8e83c8..7ed2b214b16d 100644 --- a/sound/core/control.c +++ b/sound/core/control.c @@ -1170,6 +1170,10 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_add(struct snd_ctl_file *file,
if (info->count < 1) return -EINVAL;
- if (*info->id.name)
return -EINVAL;This evaluates the first byte of 'struct snd_ctl_elem_id.name[44]' and return -EINVAL if the byte is non-zero. This means that userspace application cannot set arbitrary strings into this member because the first byte should be zero.
Gah, ! was dropped mistakenly while rebasing from the old version..
- if (strnlen(info->id.name, sizeof(info->id.name)) > sizeof(info->id.name))
return -EINVAL;The strnlen() return the length excluding terminator (\0). Even if all of the 44 bytes are filled without terminator, this conditional statement doesn't return -EINVAL. But I think this is the case that we should prevent in this patch.
Therefore, 'if (strnlen(info->id.name, sizeof(info->id.name)) >= sizeof(info->id.name))' fully satisfies the aim of this patch.
Right, the reason of this mistake was again due to rebase -- namely, the old version of the patch used strnlen_user() in the caller side, and this function returns the length *including* terminator.
Will refresh it now...
thanks,
Takashi