From: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com, lina+kernel@asahilina.net,
federico.kirschbaum@xbow.com, Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: fix stack info leak in RME Digiface status
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:50:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260726065020.46070-1-baul.lee@xbow.com> (raw)
snd_rme_digiface_read_status() reads a four-word status block from the
device into an uninitialised on-stack __le32 buf[4] and, whenever the
vendor control-IN transfer does not return a negative error, copies all
four words into the caller's status[].
snd_usb_ctl_msg() copies the full requested size back into the caller's
buffer regardless of how many bytes the data stage actually delivered:
buf = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
err = usb_control_msg(dev, pipe, request, requesttype,
value, index, buf, size, timeout);
memcpy(data, buf, size);
usb_control_msg() returns the transferred length on a short control-IN,
which is a non-negative value, and writes only that many bytes. The
remainder of the copy back is the kmemdup()ed image of the caller's
buffer, so a device answering with a short data stage leaves the
trailing words of buf[] holding leftover kernel stack. The only guard
in the caller is err < 0, so those words are stored into status[].
They then reach user space: snd_rme_digiface_get_status_val() selects a
16-bit halfword of status[] per the control's reg/mask, and the eight
Digiface status controls together expose the whole 16-byte frame to an
unprivileged reader of /dev/snd/controlC*.
Zero-initialise the buffer so a short read yields zeros instead of stack
residue. This mirrors snd_rme_get_status1(), which already clears its
output word before the same kind of vendor read.
Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Fixes: 611a96f6acf2 ("ALSA: usb-audio: Add mixer quirk for RME Digiface USB")
Reported-by: Federico Kirschbaum <federico.kirschbaum@xbow.com>
Reported-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
---
sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c b/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c
index fb3bd360e5a9..a1f5592cc5d5 100644
--- a/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c
+++ b/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c
@@ -3496,7 +3496,7 @@ static int snd_rme_digiface_read_status(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, u32 statu
struct usb_mixer_elem_list *list = snd_kcontrol_chip(kcontrol);
struct snd_usb_audio *chip = list->mixer->chip;
struct usb_device *dev = chip->dev;
- __le32 buf[4];
+ __le32 buf[4] = {};
int err;
err = snd_usb_ctl_msg(dev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev, 0),
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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