[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Avoid possible info leaks from PCM stream buffers

[Takashi Iwai]

The current PCM code doesn't initialize explicitly the buffers
allocated for PCM streams, hence it might leak some uninitialized
kernel data or previous stream contents by mmapping or reading the
buffer before actually starting the stream.

Since this is a common problem, this patch simply adds the clearance
of the buffer data at hw_params callback.  Although this does only
zero-clear no matter which format is used, which doesn't mean the
silence for some formats, but it should be OK because the intention is
just to clear the previous data on the buffer.

Reported-by: Lionel Koenig <lionel.koenig at gmail.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---

This is a revised patch of the previous one
  20191210130219.27919-1-tiwai at suse.de

 sound/core/pcm_native.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
index 1fe581167b7b..d083225344a0 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -739,6 +739,10 @@ static int snd_pcm_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	while (runtime->boundary * 2 <= LONG_MAX - runtime->buffer_size)
 		runtime->boundary *= 2;
 
+	/* clear the buffer for avoiding possible kernel info leaks */
+	if (runtime->dma_area && !substream->ops->copy_user)
+		memset(runtime->dma_area, 0, runtime->dma_bytes);
+
 	snd_pcm_timer_resolution_change(substream);
 	snd_pcm_set_state(substream, SNDRV_PCM_STATE_SETUP);
 
-- 
2.16.4