[alsa-devel] [PATCH MC Next Gen] sound/usb: Fix out of bounds access in media_entity_init()

Shuah Khan shuahkh at osg.samsung.com
Sat Dec 5 01:00:29 CET 2015


Fix the out of bounds access in media_entity_init() found
by KASan. This is a result of media_mixer_init() failing
to allocate memory for all 3 of its pads before calling
media_entity_init(). Fix it to allocate memory for the
right struct media_mixer_ctl instead of struct media_ctl.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh at osg.samsung.com>
---

This patch fixes the mixer patch below:
https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/31827/

 sound/usb/media.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/media.c b/sound/usb/media.c
index bebe27b..0cb44b9 100644
--- a/sound/usb/media.c
+++ b/sound/usb/media.c
@@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ int media_mixer_init(struct snd_usb_audio *chip)
 		if (mixer->media_mixer_ctl)
 			continue;
 
-		/* allocate media_ctl */
-		mctl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct media_ctl), GFP_KERNEL);
+		/* allocate media_mixer_ctl */
+		mctl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct media_mixer_ctl), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!mctl)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ int media_mixer_init(struct snd_usb_audio *chip)
 		mctl->media_pad[0].flags = MEDIA_PAD_FL_SINK;
 		mctl->media_pad[1].flags = MEDIA_PAD_FL_SOURCE;
 		mctl->media_pad[2].flags = MEDIA_PAD_FL_SOURCE;
+
 		media_entity_init(&mctl->media_entity, MEDIA_MIXER_PAD_MAX,
 				  mctl->media_pad);
 		ret =  media_device_register_entity(mctl->media_dev,
-- 
2.5.0



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