[alsa-devel] [patch] ASoC: ab8500-codec: info leak in anc_status_control_put()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Fri Sep 13 09:53:36 CEST 2013


If the user passes an invalid value it leads to an info leak when we
print the error message or it could oops.  This is called with user
supplied data from snd_ctl_elem_write().

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/ab8500-codec.c b/sound/soc/codecs/ab8500-codec.c
index b8ba0ad..80555d7 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/ab8500-codec.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/ab8500-codec.c
@@ -1225,13 +1225,18 @@ static int anc_status_control_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
 	struct ab8500_codec_drvdata *drvdata = dev_get_drvdata(codec->dev);
 	struct device *dev = codec->dev;
 	bool apply_fir, apply_iir;
-	int req, status;
+	unsigned int req;
+	int status;
 
 	dev_dbg(dev, "%s: Enter.\n", __func__);
 
 	mutex_lock(&drvdata->anc_lock);
 
 	req = ucontrol->value.integer.value[0];
+	if (req >= ARRAY_SIZE(enum_anc_state)) {
+		status = -EINVAL;
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
 	if (req != ANC_APPLY_FIR_IIR && req != ANC_APPLY_FIR &&
 		req != ANC_APPLY_IIR) {
 		dev_err(dev, "%s: ERROR: Unsupported status to set '%s'!\n",


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