Patch "ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS

to the 4.4-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-timer-fix-leak-in-sndrv_timer_ioctl_params.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:44:07 -0400
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS
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From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx>

commit cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e upstream.

The stack object “tread” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field
“event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes
padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 sound/core/timer.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1746,6 +1746,7 @@ static int snd_timer_user_params(struct
 	if (tu->timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_EARLY_EVENT) {
 		if (tu->tread) {
 			struct snd_timer_tread tread;
+			memset(&tread, 0, sizeof(tread));
 			tread.event = SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_EARLY;
 			tread.tstamp.tv_sec = 0;
 			tread.tstamp.tv_nsec = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_ccallback.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-sndrv_timer_ioctl_params.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_tinterrupt.patch
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