On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:57:40 +0200, > Vinod Koul wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 02:26:57PM +0800, Hsin-Yu Chao wrote: >> > + sz_read = read(fd, *res, sz); >> > + if (sz_read < 0 || (size_t)sz_read != sz) { >> > + err = -EIO; >> > + free(*res); >> > + *res = NULL; >> > + } >> > + /* Check if the tlv file specifies valid size. */ >> > + tlv = (unsigned int *)(*res); >> > + if (tlv[1] + 2 * sizeof(unsigned int) != sz) { >> >> why not use snd_ctl_tlv(), my assumption is that you are expecting a type, >> length and values in the buffer > > Actually this implicitly checks the endianess of the read data. > > > Takashi Thanks for this useful info! I read the comment regarding the length of this snd_ctl_tlv struct, saying that "in bytes aligned to 4", but I don't see anywhere in the tlv_write path asserts this. Should I also add a check here that files size is a multiple of 4? Hsin-yu _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel