linux-kernel - [PATCH] ALSA: Adjust structure(snd_timer_tread) members to avoid 8 padding bytes

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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 11:49:08 +0530
From:   Manjeet Pawar <manjeet.p@...sung.com>
To:     perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.de, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     a.sahrawat@...sung.com, lalit.mohan@...sung.com,
        pankaj.m@...sung.com, Manjeet Pawar <manjeet.p@...sung.com>,
        Vaneet Narang <v.narang@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: Adjust structure(snd_timer_tread) members to avoid 8
 padding bytes

This patch is made to fix below CVE issue where 8 padding bytes are sent to
user without being initialized. Structure members are adjusted to avoid 8 
padding bytes.

CVE-2016-4569/CVE-2016-4578:
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.

Fix patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6

These patches does memset on structure object to initialize 8 padding bytes, which can be skipped by 
adjusting structure members.

Signed-off-by: Manjeet Pawar <manjeet.p@...sung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@...sung.com>
---
 include/uapi/sound/asound.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/sound/asound.h b/include/uapi/sound/asound.h
index a45be6b..820c5a0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/sound/asound.h
+++ b/include/uapi/sound/asound.h
@@ -789,8 +789,8 @@ enum {
 
 struct snd_timer_tread {
 	int event;
-	struct timespec tstamp;
 	unsigned int val;
+	struct timespec tstamp;
 };
 
 /****************************************************************************
-- 
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