the preferred flow looks something like: - we put together the fix - send fix to upstream (alsa) project - upstream reviews/merges - if we get a new release, update to that - if new release is going to be a while, backport the patch to latest ebuild and send a PR to Gentoo's GH (github.com/gentoo/gentoo) - once Gentoo merges the PR, roll the fix into portage-stable
otherwise if things are up for debate along the way, we have chromiumos-overlay to hold our own forked packages. -mike
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:33 AM Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:41:15 +0200, Prashant Malani wrote:
Thanks.
Curious to know: Whats the URL for alsa-lib git tree? I'd love to be able to check it out.
You can get it from git.alsa-project.org
Takashi
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:46 PM, Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:32:35 +0200, Prashant Malani wrote:
Thanks Takashi,
I can confirm that this patch fixes the heap overflow issue. Could you kindly submit this patch into the alsa-lib tree?
Now applied the following patch to git tree.
thanks,
Takashi
-- 8< -- From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Subject: [PATCH] seq: Fix signedness in MIDI encoder/decoder
The qlen field of struct snd_midi_event was declared as size_t while status_events[] assigns the qlen to -1 indicating to skip. This leads to the misinterpretation since size_t is unsigned, hence it passes the check "dev.qlen > 0" incorrectly in snd_midi_event_encode_byte(), which eventually results in a memory corruption.
Also, snd_midi_event_decode() doesn't consider about a negative qlen value and tries to copy the size as is.
This patch fixes these issues: the first one is addressed by simply replacing size_t with ssize_t in snd_midi_event struct. For the latter, a check "qlen <= 0" is added to bail out; this is also good as a slight optimization.
Reported-by: Prashant Malani pmalani@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de
src/seq/seq_midi_event.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/seq/seq_midi_event.c b/src/seq/seq_midi_event.c index 2e7d1035442a..5a12a18ce781 100644 --- a/src/seq/seq_midi_event.c +++ b/src/seq/seq_midi_event.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
/* midi status */ struct snd_midi_event {
size_t qlen; /* queue length */
ssize_t qlen; /* queue length */ size_t read; /* chars read */ int type; /* current event type */ unsigned char lastcmd;@@ -606,6 +606,8 @@ long snd_midi_event_decode(snd_midi_event_t *dev, unsigned char *buf, long count status_event[type].decode(ev, xbuf +
0);
qlen = status_event[type].qlen; }
if (qlen <= 0)return 0; if (count < qlen) return -ENOMEM; memcpy(buf, xbuf, qlen);-- 2.18.0
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