This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: control: Avoid kernel warnings from tlv ioctl with numid 0 to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alsa-control-avoid-kernel-warnings-from-tlv-ioctl-with-numid-0.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c0bcdbdff3ff73a54161fca3cb8b6cdbd0bb8762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:12:40 +0100 Subject: ALSA: control: Avoid kernel warnings from tlv ioctl with numid 0 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit c0bcdbdff3ff73a54161fca3cb8b6cdbd0bb8762 upstream. When a TLV ioctl with numid zero is handled, the driver may spew a kernel warning with a stack trace at each call. The check was intended obviously only for a kernel driver, but not for a user interaction. Let's fix it. This was spotted by syzkaller fuzzer. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/core/control.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/sound/core/control.c +++ b/sound/core/control.c @@ -1325,6 +1325,8 @@ static int snd_ctl_tlv_ioctl(struct snd_ return -EFAULT; if (tlv.length < sizeof(unsigned int) * 2) return -EINVAL; + if (!tlv.numid) + return -EINVAL; down_read(&card->controls_rwsem); kctl = snd_ctl_find_numid(card, tlv.numid); if (kctl == NULL) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-3.14/alsa-hrtimer-fix-stall-by-hrtimer_cancel.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-harden-slave-timer-list-handling.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-double-unlink-of-active_list.patch queue-3.14/alsa-control-avoid-kernel-warnings-from-tlv-ioctl-with-numid-0.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-realtek-fix-silent-headphone-output-on-macpro-4-1-v2.patch queue-3.14/alsa-rme96-fix-unexpected-volume-reset-after-rate-changes.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-set-skl-hda-controller-power-at-freeze-and-thaw.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-add-inverted-dmic-for-packard-bell-dots.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-add-intel-lewisburg-device-ids-audio.patch queue-3.14/alsa-seq-fix-race-at-timer-setup-and-close.patch queue-3.14/alsa-pcm-fix-snd_pcm_hw_params-struct-copy-in-compat-mode.patch queue-3.14/alsa-seq-fix-snd_seq_call_port_info_ioctl-in-compat-mode.patch queue-3.14/alsa-seq-fix-missing-null-check-at-remove_events-ioctl.patch queue-3.14/alsa-timer-fix-race-among-timer-ioctls.patch queue-3.14/alsa-hda-apply-pin-fixup-for-hp-probook-6550b.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html