[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Fix a stack buffer overflow bug check_input_term
Hui Peng
benquike at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 19:19:10 CEST 2019
Hi, Takashi:
One point I want to be clear: if an endless recursive loop is detected,
should we return 0, or a negative error code?
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 2:58 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:13:57 +0200,
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:35:49 +0200,
> > Hui Peng wrote:
> > >
> > > `check_input_term` recursively calls itself with input
> > > from device side (e.g., uac_input_terminal_descriptor.bCSourceID)
> > > as argument (id). In `check_input_term`, if `check_input_term`
> > > is called with the same `id` argument as the caller, it triggers
> > > endless recursive call, resulting kernel space stack overflow.
> > >
> > > This patch fixes the bug by adding a bitmap to `struct mixer_build`
> > > to keep track of the checked ids by `check_input_term` and stop
> > > the execution if some id has been checked (similar to how
> > > parse_audio_unit handles unitid argument).
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike at gmail.com>
> > > Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer at nebelwelt.net>
> > > Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike at gmail.com>
> >
> > The fix looks almost good, but we need to be careful about the
> > bitmap check. In theory, it's possible that multiple nodes point to
> > the same input terminal, and your patch would break that scenario.
> > For fixing that, we need to zero-clear the termbitmap at each first
> > invocation of check_input_term(), something like below.
> >
> > Could you check whether this works?
>
> Thinking of this further, there is another possible infinite loop.
> Namely, when the feature unit in the input terminal chain points to
> itself as the source, it'll loop endlessly without the stack
> overflow.
>
> So the check of the termbitmap should be inside the loop.
> The revised patch is below.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>
> -- 8< --
> From: Hui Peng <benquike at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a stack buffer overflow bug
> check_input_term
>
> `check_input_term` recursively calls itself with input
> from device side (e.g., uac_input_terminal_descriptor.bCSourceID)
> as argument (id). In `check_input_term`, if `check_input_term`
> is called with the same `id` argument as the caller, it triggers
> endless recursive call, resulting kernel space stack overflow.
>
> This patch fixes the bug by adding a bitmap to `struct mixer_build`
> to keep track of the checked ids by `check_input_term` and stop
> the execution if some id has been checked (similar to how
> parse_audio_unit handles unitid argument).
>
> [ The termbitmap needs to be cleared at each first check of the input
> terminal, so the function got split now. Also, for catching another
> endless loop in the input terminal chain -- where the feature unit
> points to itself as its source -- the termbitmap check is moved
> inside the parser loop. -- tiwai ]
>
> Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike at gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer at nebelwelt.net>
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike at gmail.com>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> ---
> sound/usb/mixer.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/usb/mixer.c b/sound/usb/mixer.c
> index ea487378be17..aa8b046aa91f 100644
> --- a/sound/usb/mixer.c
> +++ b/sound/usb/mixer.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ struct mixer_build {
> unsigned char *buffer;
> unsigned int buflen;
> DECLARE_BITMAP(unitbitmap, MAX_ID_ELEMS);
> + DECLARE_BITMAP(termbitmap, MAX_ID_ELEMS);
> struct usb_audio_term oterm;
> const struct usbmix_name_map *map;
> const struct usbmix_selector_map *selector_map;
> @@ -775,16 +776,23 @@ static int uac_mixer_unit_get_channels(struct
> mixer_build *state,
> * parse the source unit recursively until it reaches to a terminal
> * or a branched unit.
> */
> -static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state, int id,
> - struct usb_audio_term *term)
> +static int __check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state, int id,
> + struct usb_audio_term *term)
> {
> int protocol = state->mixer->protocol;
> int err;
> void *p1;
> + unsigned char *hdr;
>
> - memset(term, 0, sizeof(*term));
> - while ((p1 = find_audio_control_unit(state, id)) != NULL) {
> - unsigned char *hdr = p1;
> + for (;;) {
> + /* a loop in the terminal chain? */
> + if (test_and_set_bit(id, state->termbitmap))
> + break;
> +
> + p1 = find_audio_control_unit(state, id);
> + if (!p1)
> + break;
> + hdr = p1;
> term->id = id;
>
> if (protocol == UAC_VERSION_1 || protocol ==
> UAC_VERSION_2) {
> @@ -802,7 +810,7 @@ static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state,
> int id,
>
> /* call recursively to verify that
> the
> * referenced clock entity is
> valid */
> - err = check_input_term(state,
> d->bCSourceID, term);
> + err = __check_input_term(state,
> d->bCSourceID, term);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
>
> @@ -836,7 +844,7 @@ static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state,
> int id,
> case UAC2_CLOCK_SELECTOR: {
> struct uac_selector_unit_descriptor *d =
> p1;
> /* call recursively to retrieve the
> channel info */
> - err = check_input_term(state,
> d->baSourceID[0], term);
> + err = __check_input_term(state,
> d->baSourceID[0], term);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
> term->type = UAC3_SELECTOR_UNIT << 16; /*
> virtual type */
> @@ -899,7 +907,7 @@ static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state,
> int id,
>
> /* call recursively to verify that the
> * referenced clock entity is valid */
> - err = check_input_term(state,
> d->bCSourceID, term);
> + err = __check_input_term(state,
> d->bCSourceID, term);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
>
> @@ -950,7 +958,7 @@ static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state,
> int id,
> case UAC3_CLOCK_SELECTOR: {
> struct uac_selector_unit_descriptor *d =
> p1;
> /* call recursively to retrieve the
> channel info */
> - err = check_input_term(state,
> d->baSourceID[0], term);
> + err = __check_input_term(state,
> d->baSourceID[0], term);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
> term->type = UAC3_SELECTOR_UNIT << 16; /*
> virtual type */
> @@ -966,7 +974,7 @@ static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state,
> int id,
> return -EINVAL;
>
> /* call recursively to retrieve the
> channel info */
> - err = check_input_term(state,
> d->baSourceID[0], term);
> + err = __check_input_term(state,
> d->baSourceID[0], term);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
>
> @@ -984,6 +992,14 @@ static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build
> *state, int id,
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> +static int check_input_term(struct mixer_build *state, int id,
> + struct usb_audio_term *term)
> +{
> + memset(term, 0, sizeof(*term));
> + memset(state->termbitmap, 0, sizeof(state->termbitmap));
> + return __check_input_term(state, id, term);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Feature Unit
> */
> --
> 2.16.4
>
>
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