Dne 06. 10. 19 v 12:47 Guennadi Liakhovetski napsal(a): > Hi, > > I decided to have a look at whether the ALSA topology parsing is bullet > proof against malformed topology files. It seems not quite to be the case. > At least I seem to have found a possibility of crashing the kernel by a > malformed topology file. I haven't tested it, so, maybe I'm wrong. > > In principle, firmware files can only be written by root, and if you have > root access to the system, it's anyway doomed. Is this the approach and > we aren't really trying to make topology parsing 100% safe, or do we want > to fix any such possible parsing issues? The kernel should not crash. Dot. If you found a serious issue, please, report it or better, send the fix. Thanks, Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
