I believe the this bug affects 64bit systems as well, but analyzing this code is easier if we assume that we're on a 32bit system. The problem is in snd_ctl_elem_add() where we do: sound/core/control.c 1669 private_size = value_sizes[info->type] * info->count; 1670 alloc_size = compute_user_elem_size(private_size, count); ^^^^^ count is info->owner. It's a non-zero u32 that comes from the user via snd_ctl_elem_add_user(). So the math in compute_user_elem_size() could have an integer overflow resulting in a smaller than expected size. 1671 1672 guard(rwsem_write)(&card->controls_rwsem); 1673 if (check_user_elem_overflow(card, alloc_size)) The math is check_user_elem_overflow() can also overflow. Additionally, large positive values are cast to negative and thus do not exceed max_user_ctl_alloc_size so they are treated as valid. It should be the opposite, where negative sizes are invalid. 1674 return -ENOMEM; Fixes: 2225e79b9b03 ("ALSA: core: reduce stack usage related to snd_ctl_new()") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/control.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/core/control.c b/sound/core/control.c index 4f55f64c42e1..f36af27e68d5 100644 --- a/sound/core/control.c +++ b/sound/core/control.c @@ -1397,9 +1397,9 @@ struct user_element { }; // check whether the addition (in bytes) of user ctl element may overflow the limit. -static bool check_user_elem_overflow(struct snd_card *card, ssize_t add) +static bool check_user_elem_overflow(struct snd_card *card, size_t add) { - return (ssize_t)card->user_ctl_alloc_size + add > max_user_ctl_alloc_size; + return size_add(card->user_ctl_alloc_size, add) > max_user_ctl_alloc_size; } static int snd_ctl_elem_user_info(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, @@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(struct user_element *ue) static size_t compute_user_elem_size(size_t size, unsigned int count) { - return sizeof(struct user_element) + size * count; + return size_add(sizeof(struct user_element), size_mul(size, count)); } static void snd_ctl_elem_user_free(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol) -- 2.45.2