The antient ISA wavefront driver reads its sample patch data (uploaded over an ioctl) via __get_user() with no good reason; likely just for some performance optimizations in the past. Let's change this to the standard get_user() and the error check for handling the fault case properly. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> --- sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c b/sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c index 69cbc79fbb71..2aaaa6807174 100644 --- a/sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c +++ b/sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront_synth.c @@ -1094,7 +1094,8 @@ wavefront_send_sample (snd_wavefront_t *dev, if (dataptr < data_end) { - __get_user (sample_short, dataptr); + if (get_user(sample_short, dataptr)) + return -EFAULT; dataptr += skip; if (data_is_unsigned) { /* GUS ? */ -- 2.31.1