linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 015/110] ALSA: oss: Use kvzalloc() for local buffer allocations

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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:11:46 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+1cb36954e127c98dd037@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 015/110] ALSA: oss: Use kvzalloc() for local buffer allocations

4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

commit 65766ee0bf7fe8b3be80e2e1c3ef54ad59b29476 upstream.

PCM OSS layer may allocate a few temporary buffers, one for the core
read/write and another for the conversions via plugins.  Currently
both are allocated via vmalloc().  But as the allocation size is
equivalent with the PCM period size, the required size might be quite
small, depending on the application.

This patch replaces these vmalloc() calls with kvzalloc() for covering
small period sizes better.  Also, we use "z"-alloc variant here for
addressing the possible uninitialized access reported by syzkaller.

Reported-by: syzbot+1cb36954e127c98dd037@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c    |    6 +++---
 sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
@@ -1062,8 +1062,8 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_change_params_loc
 	runtime->oss.channels = params_channels(params);
 	runtime->oss.rate = params_rate(params);
 
-	vfree(runtime->oss.buffer);
-	runtime->oss.buffer = vmalloc(runtime->oss.period_bytes);
+	kvfree(runtime->oss.buffer);
+	runtime->oss.buffer = kvzalloc(runtime->oss.period_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!runtime->oss.buffer) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto failure;
@@ -2328,7 +2328,7 @@ static void snd_pcm_oss_release_substrea
 {
 	struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime;
 	runtime = substream->runtime;
-	vfree(runtime->oss.buffer);
+	kvfree(runtime->oss.buffer);
 	runtime->oss.buffer = NULL;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS
 	snd_pcm_oss_plugin_clear(substream);
--- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c
+++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ static int snd_pcm_plugin_alloc(struct s
 		return -ENXIO;
 	size /= 8;
 	if (plugin->buf_frames < frames) {
-		vfree(plugin->buf);
-		plugin->buf = vmalloc(size);
+		kvfree(plugin->buf);
+		plugin->buf = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		plugin->buf_frames = frames;
 	}
 	if (!plugin->buf) {
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ int snd_pcm_plugin_free(struct snd_pcm_p
 	if (plugin->private_free)
 		plugin->private_free(plugin);
 	kfree(plugin->buf_channels);
-	vfree(plugin->buf);
+	kvfree(plugin->buf);
 	kfree(plugin);
 	return 0;
 }