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 3.18-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-3.18 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: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
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
@@ -1759,6 +1759,7 @@ 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-3.18/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_ccallback.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-sndrv_timer_ioctl_params.patch
queue-3.18/alsa-timer-fix-leak-in-events-via-snd_timer_user_tinterrupt.patch