[PATCH] [v2] ASoC: cros_ec_codec: fix uninitialized memory read

Tzung-Bi Shih tzungbi at google.com
Fri Dec 4 09:57:45 CET 2020


On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:36 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/cros_ec_codec.c b/sound/soc/codecs/cros_ec_codec.c
> index 58894bf47514..6ec673573c70 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/codecs/cros_ec_codec.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/cros_ec_codec.c
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static int i2s_rx_event(struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *w,
>         }
>
>         return send_ec_host_command(priv->ec_device, EC_CMD_EC_CODEC_I2S_RX,
> -                                   (uint8_t *)&p, sizeof(p), NULL, 0);
> +                                   &p.cmd, sizeof(p.cmd), NULL, 0);
>  }

I would prefer your v1.

Reasons:
1. The change is not just kernel related.
There is a EC (embedded controller) firmware to collaborate with the
code.  The firmware doesn't know the kernel only copies the first byte
of the packet (at least for now).  See
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/refs/heads/master/common/audio_codec_i2s_rx.c#120.

2. We don't copy partial packets in a EC host command.
IMHO, it is also not a big deal if copying a few unused bytes in the packet.


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