From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 20:44:07 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS
X-Git-Tag: v4.7-rc1~116^2~4^2~30
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e;p=karo-tx-linux.git

ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS

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@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index 0cfc028c1193..306a93dea20a 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1737,6 +1737,7 @@ static int snd_timer_user_params(struct file *file,
 	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;