linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.12 38/99] ALSA: core: Fix unexpected error at replacing user TLV

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:04:36 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.12 38/99] ALSA: core: Fix unexpected error at replacing user TLV

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

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

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

commit 88c54cdf61f508ebcf8da2d819f5dfc03e954d1d upstream.

When user tries to replace the user-defined control TLV, the kernel
checks the change of its content via memcmp().  The problem is that
the kernel passes the return value from memcmp() as is.  memcmp()
gives a non-zero negative value depending on the comparison result,
and this shall be recognized as an error code.

The patch covers that corner-case, return 1 properly for the changed
TLV.

Fixes: 8aa9b586e420 ("[ALSA] Control API - more robust TLV implementation")
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/control.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/core/control.c
+++ b/sound/core/control.c
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ static int snd_ctl_elem_user_tlv(struct
 		mutex_lock(&ue->card->user_ctl_lock);
 		change = ue->tlv_data_size != size;
 		if (!change)
-			change = memcmp(ue->tlv_data, new_data, size);
+			change = memcmp(ue->tlv_data, new_data, size) != 0;
 		kfree(ue->tlv_data);
 		ue->tlv_data = new_data;
 		ue->tlv_data_size = size;