linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 127/245] ALSA: pcm: Avoid possible info leaks from PCM stream buffers

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Message-ID: <lsq.1587683028.443437380@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:05:54 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Lionel Koenig" <lionel.koenig@...il.com>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 127/245] ALSA: pcm: Avoid possible info leaks from
 PCM stream buffers

3.16.83-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

commit add9d56d7b3781532208afbff5509d7382fb6efe upstream.

The current PCM code doesn't initialize explicitly the buffers
allocated for PCM streams, hence it might leak some uninitialized
kernel data or previous stream contents by mmapping or reading the
buffer before actually starting the stream.

Since this is a common problem, this patch simply adds the clearance
of the buffer data at hw_params callback.  Although this does only
zero-clear no matter which format is used, which doesn't mean the
silence for some formats, but it should be OK because the intention is
just to clear the previous data on the buffer.

Reported-by: Lionel Koenig <lionel.koenig@...il.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211155742.3213-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 sound/core/pcm_native.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -459,6 +459,10 @@ static int snd_pcm_hw_params(struct snd_
 	while (runtime->boundary * 2 <= LONG_MAX - runtime->buffer_size)
 		runtime->boundary *= 2;

+	/* clear the buffer for avoiding possible kernel info leaks */
+	if (runtime->dma_area)
+		memset(runtime->dma_area, 0, runtime->dma_bytes);
+
 	snd_pcm_timer_resolution_change(substream);
 	snd_pcm_set_state(substream, SNDRV_PCM_STATE_SETUP);